Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Envy Quotes

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

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Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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