Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Nothing about me surprises me.
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.