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

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You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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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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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know 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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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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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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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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