Envy – Zitate

What a wretched and apostate state is this! To be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him! The condition of the envious man is the most emphatically miserable; he is not only incapable of rejoicing in another's merit or success, but lives in a world wherein all mankind are in a plot against his quiet, studying their own happiness and advantage.

— Addison

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

— Seneca

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

— Young