"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground."
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Source: Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library
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