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Horace on Jealousy

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.

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

Odes (-23)

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

If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?

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

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