If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.
Jealousy Quotes
Shakespeare leads by a long way, followed by Giannina Braschi, Horace, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) is the best-sourced writer here, with two lines: anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love, and jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. Leonardo’s notebooks say envy wounds with false accusations.
Two entries are flagged misattributed. “The living will envy the dead” is credited to Nikita Khrushchev, and a remark that we are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is alive and praising him when he is dead is credited to Mimnermus.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.
Always follow the line of thought of the intuition negating envy.