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envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. Charles Caleb Colton
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason. Charles Caleb Colton
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. Charles Caleb Colton
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature tendencies humans
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. Bill Maher
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
human-nature humans human-beings
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. Edward Abbey
humans
I am haunted by humans. Markus Zusak
humans
Nothing human is foreign to us Edward G. Robinson
humans
You are human and fallible. Charlotte Bronte
humans
I'm human, just like anybody else. Ben Affleck
humans human-beings
What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create? Anton Chekhov
humans unique
What is unique about humans is their individuality. Leroy Hood
humans human-beings knows
I know that human beings are capable of anything. Ben Okri
humans
Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary. Edward Abbey
humans knows nobody plenty
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. Noam Chomsky