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Ovid Quotes about Envy

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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Ovid
Jealousy, Wind, Envy

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Ovid
Friendship, Years, Envy

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Ovid
Envy, Vices, Creeps

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Ovid
Death, Men, Envy

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Ovid
Life, Jealousy, Envy
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Ovid
Envy, Fields, Crops

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Ovid
Envy, Cease

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid
Envy, Genius, Depreciate

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

Ovid
Character, Envy, Vices

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