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No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.
Beware of Pity
The more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.
Status Anxiety
Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones
The envious will die, but envy never
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead
Envy aims very high
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