Envy Quotation

August 12, 2008

The most certain sign of being born with greate qualities is to be born without envy.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

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.

He who envies another admits his own inferiority.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happines of those we envy.