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.]

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

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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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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without 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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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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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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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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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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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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