| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43359 |
| QUOTATION: | Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Tristia, 3.4. 43-44. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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