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Horace2 quotes
The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCHow comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths? — Horace · 35 BCAeschylus1 quote
For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BCAlexander Pope1 quote
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. — Alexander Pope · 1733Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1908God1 quote
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. — God · 1405 BCGore Vidal1 quote
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal · 1973Oscar Wilde1 quote
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Ptolemy1 quote
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy · 168Richard Brinsley Sheridan1 quote
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1779