Quotes with envied

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• He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

  Herodotus
  Greek historian (484 - 425)
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• Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  Irving Layton
  Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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• Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

  Robert Hayden
  American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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• The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

  John Berger
  English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  Baltasar Gracián
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intellectual
• bureaucrats
• contentions
• themselves
• ceremonies
• receiving

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