Montesquieu Quotes

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.