Certain Quote by Pierre Charron

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

— Anonymous

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

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

— Tacitus

“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a…

— Bertrand Russell

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

— Ovid

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

— Jeremy Collier

To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is,…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

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

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

— Samuel Johnson

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes

— Francois La Rochefoucauld