--ST. CHRYSOSTOM.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion
that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.--PLINY.
Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
--THOMSON.
The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him
pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which
administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this
passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All
the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty,
valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a
wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence,
and to hate a man because we approve him!--STEELE.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born
without envy.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
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.--COLTON.
Envy--the rottenness of the bones.--PROVERBS 14:30.
There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows where
it dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous and
suspicious till they feel the wound.
Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.--SAADI.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a
victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a
defeat.
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