Post #2804

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy—a vice which yields no return ?
―Honoré de Balzac

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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

Post #2298

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Post #1422

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Post #1212

A brave man or a fortunate one is able to bear envy.
—Publilius Syrus

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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

Post #1122

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
—Philip James Bailey

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Post #941

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
 ―Honoré de Balzac

Post #369

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
—Jean Vanier