"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
― Baruch Spinoza
Topic(s):
Jealousy
― Baruch Spinoza
More From Baruch Spinoza
- "Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
- "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
- "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
More In Jealousy
- "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."― George Eliot
- "Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."― Alexis Carrel
- "Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."― Lord Mountbatten