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envy causes misery
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. Samuel Johnson
envy common incessant
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Jonathan Swift
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy tree goats
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne
envy doe praise
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. John Calvin
envy imagine buyers
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. John Berger
riches needs enjoy
He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most. Epicurus
rich squeeze until
It will squeeze the rich until the pips squeak. Denis Healey
rich stolen prized-possessions
The possessions of the rich are stolen property. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
rich economics poor
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell. Noam Chomsky
rich poor creditors
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. Naomi Klein
rich
I have a rich, full, textured life. Lainie Kazan
rich admire
The very rich only admire themselves Paula McLain
rich enough know-how
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. Louis Auchincloss
rich
It's not that the rich have become frugal, Jonathan Miller