Envy Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
William Arthur Ward
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
Lapo Elkann
