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If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be read more
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
 We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves
 And spend our flatteries to drink those men
  Upon whose read more 
 We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves
 And spend our flatteries to drink those men
  Upon whose age we void it up again
   With poisonous spite and envy. 
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
 The general's disdained
 By him one step below, he by the next,
  The next by him beneath; read more 
 The general's disdained
 By him one step below, he by the next,
  The next by him beneath; so every step,
   Exampled by the first pace that is sick
    Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
     Of pale and bloodless emulation:
      And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
       Not her own sinews. 
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.