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“Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.”

Seems Passion Pleasure Objects Ambition Gains Envy Luxury Covetousness Vexation

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”

Levels Objects Ordinary Sticks Envy Strikes Lightning Felicity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”

Objects Envy Felicity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”

Giving Pleasure Mankind Objects Ready Fame Envy Latter Admiration Offspring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?”

Ifs Men Grief Written Objects Envy Every Man Pity Internals Foreheads

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.”

Ifs Men Persons Doe Answers Virtue Wise Dog Objects Moon Abuse Shining Envy Clamor Shine On

Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

“By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”

Common Objects Hair Glory Respect Envy Gray Crowns Consent Gray Hair Baldness

Book:Literary and historical miscellanies

Source: Literary and historical miscellanies

“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”

Men Has Beens Might Time Pleasure Principles Objects Envy Curious Retirement Infidelity Adultery Another Man Inquisition Funny Retirement

Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

“Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.”

Facts Together Objects Hatred Envy Pursue

Author:Jean de la Bruyere