“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
Rarum id quidem nihil enim aeque gratum est adeptis quam concupiscentibus.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 15, 1.
Letters, Book II
“The modest man is seldom the object of envy.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.
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