Asks Quote by Jacob Needleman

“LAW 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no…

— Robert Greene

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the…

— Erich Fromm

An act of evil is the death of wonder

— Joe Meno

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take…

— Henry David Thoreau

“For just as the question of whether one’s paranoia is subjective or objective is internal to paranoia, the historically feminized and proletarianized emotion of…

— Sianne Ngai

“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a life," Rosa…

— Cynthia Ozick

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our…

— Anonymous

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

— Juvenal

Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable