#envy

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. ↗

— John Berger

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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ↗

— Buddha

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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. ↗

— George Byron

#certainty #doubting #envy #fool #his

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#conceit #envy #every #fight #heart

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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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. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#drink #envy #everything #i #know