Dupes Quote by Honore de Balzac

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

— Thomas Browne

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

— William Hazlitt

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,…

— René Descartes

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Greed presents itself as the longing for both the material and the nonmaterial, especially wanting more than is needed. However, whatever you stockpile -…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the…

— William Godwin

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would…

— Jean de la Bruyere

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity…

— George Eliot