#envied

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ↗

— Herodotus

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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ↗

— Irving Layton

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