Degrees Quote by Rajneesh

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away your very…

— Anil Sinha

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in…

— Bertrand Russell

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

— Jonathan Edwards

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no…

— Anonymous

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

— T. S. Eliot

“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us.…

— Carlos Fuentes

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get…

— Aristotle