Horace Quotes About Envy
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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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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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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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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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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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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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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