Enjoy Quote by Jeremiah Seed

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

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be…

— Pietro Metastasio

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

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

— Agnes Repplier

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

— Tacitus

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

— Publilius Syrus

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the…

— Edward Young

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the…

— Joseph Hall

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into…

— George Orwell

“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is…

— Bertrand Russell