Envy Quote by Plautus Download Open image “It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.” — Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Jealousy Nature Spiteful Unfortunate Wells
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity… — Fergus MacDermott Copy Share Image
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till you started… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
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