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- Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself....
- On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
- Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
- Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
- Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
- Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
- I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
- Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
- There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.
- Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy,…
- What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
- Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
- I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
- Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or…
- Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
- The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
- Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
- Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
- Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
- Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
More Envy Quotes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
- He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus