Honore de Balzac Quotes About Envy
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
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