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Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

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

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

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.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Envy is a deadly sin!