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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Despair, Arms, Cold

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• Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Judging, Empathy

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Looks

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hate, Praise, Belittle

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Hatred, Lines

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• The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fun, Pain, Insecure

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Boredom, Insecurity

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Looks, Wealth

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.14, Random House

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• Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

  Margaret George

  Shadow, Sides, Compare

  Margaret George (2011). “The Autobiography Of Henry VIII”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• Envy suggests inferiority.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Inferiority

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• Envy is the religion of the mediocre

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mediocre

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• Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Hallmark, Knows

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.274, Hamilton Books

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Bird, Adults

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pride, Mind

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Rising, Glory

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• Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

  Wesley Pruden

  Greed, Replaced

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• Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

  John Stott

  Vanity, Coins, Proud

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Hate, Hatred, Vices

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• Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

  Willa Cather

  Play, Loyal, Fiddle

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.77, Vintage

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• You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

  Martial

  May

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• Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Power, Innocent, Eminence

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23

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• The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judgment, Malevolence, Posterity

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• The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

  Miguel

  Hate, Sadness, Hypocrisy

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