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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Envy Older Sense Someone Sometimes Strong Thinking Young
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Ambition Confuse Envy Tangle
She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
JOHN BERGER

Envy Herself Imagine Justify Loving Menat Object Other Product Transform
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
BAHA'U'LLAH

Envy Heart Holiness
Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.
BO SANCHEZ

Blessed Envy People
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Biology Bitterness Class Envy Feeling Glacier Movement Physics Wrong
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER

Complex Difference Envy Frustrate Inferior Passion Result
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
JOHN BERGER

Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGER

Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Envy Men Praise
A person worth envying is a person who doesn’t envy
BOONAA MOHAMMED

Anything Envy Persons
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANN

Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
The unspeakable horrors behind each eyes that see you – either admire you or envy you – protect your sanity with prayers.
DR. ZAINAB ANSARI

Envy Horror Pain Prayer Sanity
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Envy Expectation Ilusion Mass Push Richer Socialism
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
ADA LEVERSON

Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
AGNES REPPLIER

Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Close Envy Feel Friend Group Member Ourselves Reference
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER

Conscious Envy Hide Inferiority Nature One Liner Shame Shy Suspect
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
AGNES REPPLIER

Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
JOHN BERGER

Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator
I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
BORIS JOHNSON

Believe Envy Stress

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