Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Envy Quotes

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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