Platonic Jealousy

Famous quotes containing the words platonic and/or jealousy:

“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)