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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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.]
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus read more
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentus.]
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
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If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
[Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax
videar?]
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
