Ovid Quotes, Envy Quotes, Genius Quotes

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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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.

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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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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

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

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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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

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

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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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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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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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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

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