Morality...Vices...ENVY
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0899
“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it.” — William Shenstone
ENVY, Doubt, Fear
0900
“Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.” — Pliny the Elder
ENVY, Doubt
0901 A
“Envy is like a fly that passes all a body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.” — George Chapman
ENVY, Excellence, Optimism
0902 H
“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.” — Mark Twain
ENVY, Wealth
0903
“The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.”
— John Lyly
ENVY, Wealth
0904
“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.” — Charles Caleb Colton
ENVY, Wealth
0905 H
“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t got what they want that
they don’t really want it.” — Ogden Nash
ENVY, Wealth
0906
“He that is jealous is not in love.” — St. Augustine
ENVY, Love
0907
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ENVY, Goodness
ENVY Cross-References
Wealth—11, 38, 47 • Excellence—70 •
Pessimism—279 • Sadness—372 • Fame—515 •
Innovation—740 • Love—758 • Greed—881-882, 884, 887 •
Sin—1026 • War & Peace—1332
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