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Envy is a moth to the heart, a canker to the thought, and a
rust to the soul.
Envy shoots at others, but hits itself.
The greatest mischief you can do the envious, is to do well.
Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous,
But who can stand before envy?
Prov 27:4
Envy is blind, and has no other quality but that of detracting
from virtue.
Envy slayeth the silly ones.
Bible
Harbor not the vice called envy, lest another's happiness be
your torment.
Pride poisoned with malice becomes envy.
No one would be envied if his whole estate were known.
Envy has no other quality but that of detracting from virtue.
Livy
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody
ever had the confidence to own it.
Rochester
A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in
others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good,
or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon
the other; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's
virtue, will seek to come at even hand by depressing another's
fortune.
Bacon
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor,
will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to
rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can
be depressed to a level with themselves.
Franklin
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things
that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Young
The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being
born without envy.
Rochefoucauld
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit
of some excuse, but envy wants both. We should strive against
it, for if indulged in it will be to us a foretaste of hell
upon earth.
Burton
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; but, like a shadow,
proves the substance true.
Pope
Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy, as
being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but another's
goodness or felicity.
Jeremy Taylor
Envy feels not its own happiness but when it may be compared
with the misery of others.
Johnson
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and which seem to
content and satisfy them for a while. There is power in
ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but
envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Montaigne
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and
intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
G. Bailey
Base envy withers at another's joy, and hates the excellence it
cannot reach.
Thomson
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
Pliny
No crime is so great to envy as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill
We are often vain of even the most criminal of our passions;
but envy is so shameful a passion that we never dare to
acknowledge it.
Rochefoucauld
The envious praise only that which they can surpass; that which
surpasses them they censure.
Colton
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious toward new men when
they rise; for the distance is altered; it is like a deceit of
the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go
back.
Bacon
If envy, like anger, did not burn itself in its own fire, and
consume and destroy those persons it possesses before it can
destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world
on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most
miserable.
Clarendon
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's
prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire,
will sting itself to death.
Colton
Envy makes us see what will serve to accuse others, and not
perceive what may justify them.
Daniel Wilson
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
Chrysostom
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace
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