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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.Pindaro · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 124
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Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne'er shall find.Pindaro · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 343
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another's we soon cease to grieve.Pindaro · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 381
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I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And 'gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.Pindaro · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 481
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Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?Pindaro · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 66
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