Flattery is a false currency to which our vanity gives exchange value.
The sign of extraordinary worth is to see that the people who envy it most are compelled to praise it.
Jealousy is, in a certain way, just and reasonable, since it tends only to preserve a good which belongs to us, or which we think belongs to us, while envy cannot suffer the good of another...
We are often proud of our passions, even the most guilty; but envy is a shameful passion that no one dares to confess...
Our envy lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
We must remember our important people so that after death we can honor them properly. It seems to us that, in this way, many will covet such an honor.
Envy is an embarrassingly sinful feeling. We must be the conscious shapers of our own destiny and not dry up by staring blankly at what others are doing.
Envy: ... hatred of another's superiority.
Often, the slave, senile state / with ice-in her veins, the poor bones, from the last sweet indolence / she hates everything she can't do. / The unloved casts slander / on the night of love flowing in peace; / and the pleasure that is not given to him / in another is immediately condemned.
Envy: ... mixture of esteem and hatred for the advantages you don't have.
Envy, confessed or not, is always a sign of inferiority.
Envy...Many mortals on trial have admitted, in the hope of a lighter punishment, that they have been guilty of terrible deeds, but who has ever confessed to being envious? Each of us feels that envy hides something more shameful than the crime itself, however treacherous it may be. And not only do they condemn her, but good people can't even believe it when they hear that an intelligent person is accused of such a thing.
Praise is the sun that makes us fruitful.
We praise our fellow men in proportion to the esteem they hold us.
We must deserve the praises ourselves, so that we can listen patiently to those brought to us by others.
To enjoy praise, you don't necessarily have to feel worthy of it.
Envy speaks with pursed lips.
Don't break the old statues because all that will be left behind are plinths.
A plant that causes insomnia for some: laurels for others.
Only after the envy of others do you realize your true worth.
Not all men are capable of great things, but all are moved by great things.
Envy ...glory's companion.
The taller you get, the smaller you look in the eyes of the scumbags.
There is more inappropriateness in praise than in reproach.
There is an innocence in admiration; that of the man who hasn't thought, yet, that he might be admired one day...
People don't forgive you when you look different from them.
The flatterer: ...he who says, without thinking, things that the flattered thinks, without saying.
It frightens us to think that sometimes the most sincere admiration we arouse comes from those who do not understand us
We seem to envy, more than others, those who soar by their own power of wings and break free from the cage in which others remain confined.
Do not pluck the flowers that form the crown.