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Imagination cannot makes fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable.
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
If sensuality be our only happiness, we ought to envy the brutes; for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Envy | Instinct | Reason | Sensuality | Happiness |
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Honors bestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for the living pity the dead; and pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
Avarice | Lust | Men | Prodigality |
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by defeat.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.
Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
We often glory in the most criminal passion; but that of envy is so shameful that we dare not even own it.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
Envy | Esteem | Greed | Self | Self-esteem |
One should fear the envy of relatives and friends more than the envy of enemies.
James Froude, fully James Anthony Froude
The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
Cruelty | Eternity | Law | Lust | Moral law | Oppression | Price | Cruelty |