The envied have a brilliant fate;
Pity is given where griefs are great. [ Palladas ]

Better it is to be envied than pitied. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. [ Proverb ]

He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). [ Horace ]

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [ Metastasio ]

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. [ Colton ]

If it is a pleasure to be envied and shot at, to be maligned standing and to be despised falling, then it is a pleasure to be great. [ South ]

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. [ Johnson ]

We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]