Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

— Ludwig von Mises

Envy, like fire, soars upward.

— Livy

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

— Livy

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

— Francis Beaumont

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

— Arthur Chapman

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

— Og Mandino

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

— Norm MacDonald

“Hate and envy are like a bomb that cannot destroy anything without first destroying itself.”

— Magnus Nwagu Amudi

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

— Jeremy Collier

Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away your very…

— Anil Sinha

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

— Viggo Mortensen

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

— Livy

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

— William Lilly