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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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

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

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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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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Envy Quotes , Inferiority 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

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self 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

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

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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Envy Quotes , Taoism 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

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

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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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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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 as evil a thing as arrogance.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Evil Quotes , Envy Quotes

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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Envy Quotes