Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying lo….
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with hims….
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean a….
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon..
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on..
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious ….
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy..
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting..
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will ….
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery..
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results..
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mut….
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned.
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for ….
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do..
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances..
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all..
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being.….
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide ….
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail..
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy….