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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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William Hogarth
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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Antisthenes
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40 votes
Envy aims very high.
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Ovid
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7 votes
Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]
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Bible
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29 votes
Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
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German Proverb
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Ovid
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Envy is honors foe.
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Motto
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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9 votes
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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John Gay
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21 votes
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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Aeschylus
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31 votes
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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Horace
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Herodotus
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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32 votes
It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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8 votes
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Sir Thomas Browne
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22 votes
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Mark Twain
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8 votes
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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Francis Bacon
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36 votes
Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
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Thomas Fuller
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14 votes
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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William Shakespeare
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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
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Danish Proverb
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66 votes
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Henry Fielding
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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Baltasar Gracian
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12 votes
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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Socrates
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10 votes
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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9 votes
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.
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Groucho Marx
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18 votes
They that envy others are their inferiors.
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Saying
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Gore Vidal
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5 votes