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Envy Quotes
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
 share this Envy saying   Harold Coffin

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
 share this Envy saying   Helmut Schoeck

Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood
 share this Envy saying   Muhammad

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
 share this Envy saying   Saint John Chrysostom

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
 share this Envy saying   Buddha

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Author:
 share this Envy saying   Ovid

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
 share this Envy saying   Aeschylus

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
 share this Envy saying   Arthur Chapman

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
 share this Envy saying   Ayn Rand

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart, like a viper in its hole.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
 share this Envy saying   Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

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

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
 share this Envy saying   Claude Arien Helvetius

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