Aesop Quotes

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Envy is human nature.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

It's hard to find someone who is really genuinely happy for you if you are having success and they're not.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.