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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ~

Arthur Chapman

~ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ~

Ayn Rand

~ Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ It was well said that envy keeps no holidays. ~

Francis Bacon

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

Honore de Balzac

~ When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. ~

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

~ Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. ~

Charles Churchill

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

Jeremy Collier

~ There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. ~

Claude Arien Helvetius

~ All envy is proportionate to desire. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~

Baltasar Gracian

~ Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. ~

~ Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. ~

Bertrand Russell

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