Horace Quotes, Mean Quotes, Envy Quotes

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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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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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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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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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.

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

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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

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

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

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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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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

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