#2,985

Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation.

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#2,976

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,928

Envy is the key to more stories than sex.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,848

Nothing is more common than to despise many persons who should actually arouse our envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,811

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,655

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,592

We do not always distinguish what harms our delicate nature from what provokes our envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,450

Goodness and beauty are not mutually exclusive except where goodness serves as a pretext for envy and beauty for luxury.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,348

The rich man is not disconcerted by anyone except by someone who does not envy him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 380

#2,249

It is easier to be compassionate than it is not to feel envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#2,176

In a democracy the only man who smiles at everyone else is the politician in search of votes.
No one else can afford the luxury of smiling at others: everyone is everyone else’s rival.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354

#2,168

The left is a collection of those who blame society for nature’s shabby treatment of them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 353

#2,069

Every society eventually bursts when envy expands too far.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#2,062

The number of censurable things is greatly reduced when one ceases to covet.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,049

Compassion is the best excuse for envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 332

#2,000

The compassion we display to some helps us to justify the envy which others awaken in us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,923

Whoever denies the bourgeoisie its virtues has been infected with the worst of its vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,894

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,832

The speed with which modern society absorbs its enemies could not be explained if their apparently hostile clamor were not simply an impatient demand for promotions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,769

Modern luxury disarms envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292