Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.

Envy is admiration laced with resentment.

Be who your enemies dread you'll become.

Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;
the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.

The riper a tree's fruit, the more stones people cast at it.

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.