"Envy, like fire, soars upward." — Livy

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
• Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of… — P T Barnum
• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest… — Francis Beaumont
• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger
• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
• Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake
• God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
• Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown

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