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Envy Quotes - Page 22

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

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.457

A competitive society is a society of envy.

Dorothee Sölle (1983). “The arms race kills even without war”, Augsburg Fortress Publishers

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.428

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1995). “Recollections: the French Revolution of 1848”, p.98, Transaction Publishers

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Alexander Pope (1804). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.71