
“[ William Tyndale is a man] replete with venomous envy, rancour and malice.”
Letter to Stephen Vaughan after May 1531. (Merriman, i. p. 335.)
Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.
Source: Tristan, Line 8395
Hazzen unde nîden daz muoz der biderbe lîden. der man der werdet al die vrist, die wîle und er geniten ist.
Tristan
“[ William Tyndale is a man] replete with venomous envy, rancour and malice.”
Letter to Stephen Vaughan after May 1531. (Merriman, i. p. 335.)
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
The City and Man, p. 5 (1964)
“The modest man is seldom the object of envy.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Part I, Chapter 1.2, the mysterious stranger's words to Bob Shane
Lightning (1988)
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Variant: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.