Aesop on envy

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Such men as he be never at heart’s ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1623), Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 208.In context

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings1818–1885

• Love

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe1564–1593