Horace Quotes, Horse 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.]

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Envy-Thy art blindness

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Tags : Aftab Alam Quotes , Art Quotes , Envy Quotes

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Light Quotes , Envy Quotes

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Trust Quotes , Envy Quotes

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Envy Quotes , Fields 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!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Envy Quotes , Enemy Quotes

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Envy Quotes , Purpose Quotes

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

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

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Envy Quotes , Silence Quotes

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , People Quotes , Envy Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Envy Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Envy Quotes

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Hate Quotes , Envy Quotes

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

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Envy Quotes , Groups Quotes

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Class Quotes , Envy Quotes

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Mean Quotes , Envy Quotes

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Envy Quotes

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Envy Quotes