Learn Through Quotations

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”

“Envy is ignorance.”

“Envy is a waste of time.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“A show of envy is an insult to oneself.”

“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”

“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”

“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.”

“Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.”

“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.”

“Envy slays itself by its own arrows.”

“Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”

“Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.”

“As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.”

“Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbour will feel a pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues are happy if others can be depressed to a level with themselves.”

“It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”

“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.”

“It is better to be envied than pitied.”

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”