Envy Quote by Agnes Repplier Download Open image “Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.” — Agnes Repplier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Fullness Men Motivation Needs Selfishness
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. — William R. Bradford Copy Share Image
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to… — Berthold Auerbach 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
“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell 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 be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yes, Clay Matthews has a long, golden, Fabio-esque flowing mane that most women would chick-slap someone for. And yes, the shiny, beautiful, dark locks… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
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