Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.
I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!
I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.