envy - quotes

Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914

was an US author and satirist

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

( “The Devil's Dictionary”, 1906 )

Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 1622-1673

was a French actor and comic dramatist

Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never.

( “The Misanthrope”, 1666 )

François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

was a French author and moralist

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.