Christopher Marlowe on envy

Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

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

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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Tacitus55–120