Envied Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envied Envious Heaven Hell Jealousy
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with… — John Berger Copy Share Image
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. — Homer Copy Share Image
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
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The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them. — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going,… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image