"The envious person grows lean with the fatness……" — Socrates

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• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt… — Sandra Bullock
• England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished… — John Cleese
• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
• One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has… — Imagawa Sadayo
• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. — Horace
• Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with… — Charles R. Swindoll
• Even success softens not the heart of the envious. — Pindar
• This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution… — Winston Churchill
• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act… — Thomas Nagel
• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all… — William James
• The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an… — Ludwig von Mises
• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have… — Oscar Wilde

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