Ovid Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Envy

• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

  Ovid

  Jealousy, Wind, Envy

• Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

  Ovid

  Envy, Vices, Creeps

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  Ovid

  Envy, Fields, Crops

• Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

  Ovid

  Envy, Genius, Depreciate

• Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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  Envy, Cease

• Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
  Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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  Friendship, Years, Envy

• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

• Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

  Ovid

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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