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Philosophical literature

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo · 1908

★ 5.5

Scripture · Religious literature

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

Exodus 20:17 · 1405 BC

★ 5.4

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune.

Aeschylus

Agamemnon · 458 BC

★ 3.8

Letter

The covetous man is ever in want.

Horace

20 BC

★ 3.8

Interview · Magazine

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

1973

★ 3.6

Poem

How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

Horace

35 BC

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

Ptolemy

Tetrabiblos · 168

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

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

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Poem

Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 1.9

Play · Satire (play) · Satire

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Critic · 1779

★ 1.9

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