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    Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

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    You don't need to be deep in order to be called intellectual. You need to create connectivity with the people by using the language that they can understand. You don't need to be an artist, because it comes out naturally. You don't need to be critic and poet, because what matters is that you believe in yourself. You just don't need to be envious for the happiness of other people. Throw all your bitterness away. Peace be with you!

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    Your dreams come crushing down when you tow the wrong path by looking at what others are doing. The Milky Way Galaxy would have been crushed down by now if each planet had left its own orbit to revolve elsewhere!

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    Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

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    Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

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    You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.

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    Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

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    As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

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    Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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    I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

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    Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

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    Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

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    I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

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    I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

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    I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

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    I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

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    I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

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    I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.

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    Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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    It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

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    It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

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    Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

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    Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

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    Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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    Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

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    Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

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    Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

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    RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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

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    That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

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    The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

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    The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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    The envious will die, but envy never.

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    The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

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    The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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    The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

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    The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

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    There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

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    The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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    Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

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    Those who object to wit are envious of it.

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    When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

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    While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

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    Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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    An envious heart can't be original.

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    A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

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    At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed.

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    Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

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    Be careful when shining the light of your success among those with an envious spirit, for there will be no celebration for your success within a robbery.

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    Be careful what you wish for others, it just might get you.