Josh Billings on envy

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Such men as he be never at heart’s ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1623), Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 208.In context

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe1564–1593

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Tacitus55–120