The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For this equality belongs to the post-Renaissance world of ideology-of political magic and the alchemical science” of politics. Envy is the basis… — M.E. Bradford Copy Share Image
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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 bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
“The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's destiny is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it;… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Envy, Doña Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is… — Robert A. Agresta Copy Share Image
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Where I'm at right now, I ain't got no tolerance for something stupid, or hatred, or envy. If you bringing any one… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
