Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Jealousy Quotes
Shakespeare leads by a long way, followed by Giannina Braschi, Horace, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) is the best-sourced writer here, with two lines: anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love, and jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. Leonardo’s notebooks say envy wounds with false accusations.
Two entries are flagged misattributed. “The living will envy the dead” is credited to Nikita Khrushchev, and a remark that we are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is alive and praising him when he is dead is credited to Mimnermus.
Bernie's particular brand of socialism is probably better described as 'grandparent envy.'
With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.
I envy the tireless intimacy of women's friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.
I have always been singularly free of envy, jealousy, covetousness; I but vaguely understand them.
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
You don’t envy the best, You learn from the best and you apply those to your business.