"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."

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"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."

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"Envy is an insult to oneself."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet

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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."

Charley Reese, American Writer

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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

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"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

John Gay, English Poet

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"Envy is an insult to oneself."

"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."

"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."

"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

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"There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste."

"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."

"Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes."