Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
[Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
[Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are read more

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]

Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]

The general's disdained
By him one step below, he by the next,
The next by him beneath; read more

The general's disdained
By him one step below, he by the next,
The next by him beneath; so every step,
Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation:
And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
Not her own sinews.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
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Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.