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Philosophical literature2 quotes
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1908Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy · 168Greek tragedy1 quote
For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BCPolitical literature1 quote
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Religious literature1 quote
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. — God · 1405 BCSatire1 quote
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1779Satire (play)1 quote
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1779Tragedy (play)1 quote
For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BC