Being equal Quote by Jeremy Collier Download Open image “Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.” — Jeremy Collier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being equal Circumstances Envy Equal Lying Nature Two
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Envy is an indispensable member of our society and somewhat a loyal friend of our society; its fruits can be sweeter or bitter; it… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us.… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves… — Stanwood Cobb Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true,… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
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