Horace Quotes, Envy Quotes, Competition Quotes

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

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Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

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