Honore de Balzac Envy Quotations

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.