“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Nature loves to hide.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Character is destiny.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

Nothing endures but change.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man’s character is his fate.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I’m handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.