How can we explain the perpetuity of envy—a vice which yields no return ?
―Honoré de Balzac
Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Friday, February 02, 2018
Post #2505
To pooh-pooh what we are never likely to possess is wonderfully easy. The confirmed celibate is loudest in his denunciations of matrimony. In Aesop, it is the tailless fox that advocates the disuse of tails. It is the grapes we cannot reach that we call sour.
—Aeneas Sage
—Aeneas Sage
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Post #2298
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Post #1989
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
—Charles Caleb Colton
—Charles Caleb Colton
Monday, December 02, 2013
Post #1422
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Monday, March 18, 2013
Friday, December 14, 2012
Post #1137
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
—Francis Bacon
—Francis Bacon
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Friday, May 04, 2012
Post #941
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
―Honoré de Balzac
―Honoré de Balzac
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Post #369
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
—Jean Vanier
—Jean Vanier
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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