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about Envy Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Max Beerbohm When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. Tacitus Our envy of others devours us most of all. Alexander Solzhenitsyn The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: 'Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I'. Alexis de Tocqueville Envy's a sharper spur than pay. John Gay Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. Eubie Blake It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. Lou Holtz A show of envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko | |