Horace Quotes, Mean Quotes, Envy Quotes

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Mean Quotes , Envy Quotes

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Envy Quotes , Shadow Quotes

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Love Quotes , Envy Quotes

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Envy Quotes , Sin Quotes

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Envy Quotes

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Envy Quotes

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Envy Quotes

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Envy Quotes , Emotion Quotes

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Envy Quotes , Way Quotes

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Envy Quotes , Vices Quotes

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Envy Quotes

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Animal Quotes , Envy Quotes

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Horse Quotes , Envy Quotes

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Envy Quotes

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Yield Quotes , Envy Quotes

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Careers Quotes , Envy Quotes

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes