Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Of the things you have select the best: and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have them.
PAIN n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body or may be purely mental caused by the good fortune of another.
Attribute not the good actions of another to bad causes: thou canst not know his heart; but the world will know by this that thine is full of envy.
As iron is eaten away by rust so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it or will Admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.
Envy is like a fly that passes all a bodys sounder parts And dwells upon the sores.
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.
The covetous man is ever in want.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
The things which belong to others please us more And that which is ours is more pleasing to others.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything whether it be good or bad.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Of the things you have select the best: and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have them.
PAIN n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body or may be purely mental caused by the good fortune of another.
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener … it must be all the fertilizer they are using.
But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man?s eyes!
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions like as fire eateth up and burneth wood.