Envy

(191 votes)   Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(167 votes)   Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

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(128 votes)   The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(107 votes)   None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(106 votes)   Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(103 votes)   Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(102 votes)   Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

Ralph Harper

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(82 votes)   His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(82 votes)   There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.

Groucho Marx
1895-1977, American Comic Actor

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(80 votes)   He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(76 votes)   Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(70 votes)   The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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(68 votes)   It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(67 votes)   Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

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(62 votes)   The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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