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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Sep 29, 2025
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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