There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
Do not kick against the pricks.
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.