“Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.”

—  Jacopo Sannazaro

L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,
E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Envy".

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