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  2. All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

  3. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

  4. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

  5. An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors.

  6. An immoderate desire of riches is a poison lodged in the mind.

  7. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  8. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious.

  9. As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

 10. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust,or as an embryo is covered by the womb, similarly the living entity is covered by different degrees of lust which veils real knowledge and is never satisfied.

 11. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

 12. Attribute not the good actions of another to bad causes: thou canst not know his heart; but the world will know by this that thine is full of envy.

 13. Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault. The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

 14. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

 15. Avarice is insatiable and is always pushing on for more.

 16. Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end? The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

 17. Avarice, the spur of industry.

 18. Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day...Selfishness is the dynamo of our economic system...which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

 19. Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

 20. Covetousness has for its mother unlawful desire, for its daughter injustice, and for its friend violence.

 21. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but greedy of honor and feeding on selfishness.

 22. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

 23. Covetousness is the cause of sin.

 24. Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it had got.

 25. Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

 26. Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.

 27. Destroy selfishness through selfless service, charity, generosity and love.

 28. Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satiated, for this is an abomination inspired by illusion.

 29. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.

 30. Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

 31. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

 32. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

 33. Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

 34. Envy is littleness of soul.

 35. Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.

 36. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition, and the perpetual tormenter of virtue.

 37. Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

 38. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

 39. Envy not greatness: for thou makest thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

 40. Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

 41. Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, but like a shadow, proves the substance true.

 42. Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it.

 43. Envy, like flame, soars upwards.

 44. Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

 45. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave,Is emulation in the learned or brave.

 46. Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

 47. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

 48. Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold.

 49. Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise.

 50. Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

 51. Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

 52. From covetousness anger proceeds; from covetousness lust is born; from covetousness come delusion and perdition.

 53. Hatred and malice feed upon his heart, and there is no rest in him.

 54. He sitteth in his cell repining; and the good that happeneth to another, is to him an evil.

 55. He that is jealous is not in love.

 56. He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

 57. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

 58. He who is contented with contentment is always contented.

 59. Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.

 60. If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

 61. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world.

 62. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.

 63. In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

 64. In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.

 65. It contaminates and destroys everything that was good in it.

 66. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

 67. It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but themselves.

 68. It is by feeding vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to the worm that fattens on the blossom's heart.

 69. It is no sooner rooted there, than all virtue, all honesty, all natural affection, fly before the face of it.

 70. It is the root of all evils and sufferings.

 71. It makes him greedy.

 72. It separates man from man.

 73. Jealousy - magnifier of trifles.

 74. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it.

 75. Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just; it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we think belongs, to us; whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure, even in idea, the good of others.

 76. Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

 77. Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.

 78. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and, finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

 79. Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions.

 80. Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

 81. Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

 82. No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

 83. Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

 84. O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up.

 85. Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense.

 86. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

 87. Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

 88. Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper.

 89. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live.

 90. Selfishness is the greatest sin. It constrains the heart.

 91. Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

 92. Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, binded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

 93. Surely, those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly, swallow nothing but fire into their bellies, and they shall soon enter into the flaming fire.

 94. The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

 95. The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.

 96. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

 97. The demon of worldly desires is always seeking chances to deceive the mind.

 98. The envious will die, but envy never.

 99. The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

100. The heart of the envious is gall and bitterness; his tongue spitteth venom; the success of his neighbour breaketh his rest.

101. The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

102. The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

103. The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

104. The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

105. The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

106. The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others.

107. The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

108. There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.

109. There is no greater guilt than discontentment.

110. Therefore regulate the senses in the beginning and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.

111. Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life.

112. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

113. Though an avaricious man possesses wealth, An envious man possesses another's goods, And an ill-minded man possesses his learning- None of these can produce lasting pleasure.

114. Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

115. True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

116. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

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

118. Yet he was jealous,though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.