Horace Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

  Horace

  Love, Envy, Envied

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

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

• 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.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

• 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.]

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Tutus

• 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.]

  Horace

  Envy, Competition, Crow

• 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.]

  Horace

  Horse, Envy, Lazy

• The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

  Horace

  Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Epistles, I. 2. 57, 1922.

• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

  Horace

  Envy, Silence, Crow

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

• Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

  Horace

  Envy

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