“ When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 841
“ Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything — and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. ”
- Yoda- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. ”
- Dorothy Day- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ”
- Hesiod- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Three sparks — pride, envy, and avarice — have been kindled in all hearts. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. ”
- Joni Mitchell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
- 355
“ The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
- 546
“ Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. ”
- Wilma Rudolph- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. ”
- Oliver Stone- Copy
- 1.5K
“ How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The richest man on earth is but a pauper fed and clothed by the bounty of heaven. Proverb Riches have made more men covetous, than covetousness hath made men rich. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 301
“ Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
- 3K
“ Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ”
- Arthur Chapman- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 224
“ Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ”
- Buddha- Copy
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