And oh, Fair plant, said he, with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.

jealousy is the grave of affection

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the president's own lack of focus and lack of concern were simply incomprehensible.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way he dances, the way he jabs, the way he talks.... That's me.