Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Envy is human nature.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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