We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to walk in public, because people look at me. But I'm not going to stop. I'm afraid because if I… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
“Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
ALLAH! If someone hates me for my happiness I ask you that .You bless them with happiness so that they forget mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
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