#envy

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #fun #only #seven #sins

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ↗

— Vittorio De Sica

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #envy #feel #i #paying

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#beauty

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#bit #could #creatures #did #envy

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#god #i #me #my own #oh

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#angry #deserved #envy #ingredients #justice

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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