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“How much better is it to turn to the contemplation of so many great blessings, and to be thankful that the gods have been pleased to give us a place second only to themselves in this most beautiful abode, and that they have appointed us to be the lords of the earth!” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits · precept
“Ther is no verray wele in this world here. But O, thou wikked serpent, Ialousye,” Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde · insight
“Yet nathelees, considered his distresse, And that love is in cause of swich folye, Thus to him spak she of his Ialousye:” Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde · observation
Zarathustra instructs judges and sacrificers to treat the pale criminal’s slaying as pity, separating thought, deed, and idea, and interpreting madness as preceding murderous desire rather than mere revenge.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself. Ah! my brother, hast thou never seen a virtue backbite and stab itself? Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues,—for thou wilt succumb by them.—…
The feast proceeds with tournaments, horn and trumpet sounds, crowned queens attending mass, and then shared banqueting that ends only after days of merriment amid growing jealousy between the women.
773 Eke of all the presents / did they naught withhold, That had given them Siegfried: / apparel rich and gold Displayed they to the people / of the monarchs three. To him were they full grateful / who thus had dealt so bounteously. 774 "Well may he," quoth Hagen, / "of his treasure give, Nor could he deal it fully, / should he forever live: Hoard of the Nibelungen / beneath his hand doth lie. Heigh-ho, if came it…
He argues that zeal arises from the intensity of love: strong love resists opposition, producing jealousy, envy, or zealous defense of a friend’s good and even God’s honor.
is written (1 Cor. 3:3): "Whereas there is among you zeal [Douay: 'envying'] and contention," etc. But contention is incompatible with love. Therefore zeal is not an effect of love. Obj. 2: Further, the object of love is the good, which communicates itself to others. But zeal is opposed to communication; since it seems an effect of zeal, that a man refuses to share the object of his love with another: thus husbands …
In a village overnight, Apuleius recounts a jealous wife who burns her husband’s assets and throws herself and her bound child into a pit, while the husband later punishes the servant by leaving him for honey-eating pismares.
How a woman killed her selfe and her child, because her husband haunted harlots. After that we had passed a great part of our journey, we came to a village where we lay all night, but harken, and I will tell you what mischiefe happened there: you shall understand there was a servant to whom his Master had committed the whole government of his house, and was Master of the lodging where we lay: this servant had marrie…
Seneca argues that jealousy and comparisons breed ingratitude, and he urges readers to interpret benefits kindly by their “right side” rather than focusing on faults and missed opportunities.
none so paltry that it cannot be made more of by friendly interpretation. We shall never want a subject for complaint if we look at benefits on their wrong side. XXIX. See how unjustly the gifts of heaven are valued even by some who profess themselves philosophers, who complain that we are not as big as elephants, as swift as stags, as light as birds, as strong as bulls; that the skins of seals are stronger, of hind…
Pandarus consoles Criseyde and argues jealousy causes needless harm, urging her to keep Troilus company through the night and promising their rendezvous and discretion will prevent trouble.
maketh him that he 830 May in no perfit selinesse be. And if to lese his Ioye he set a myte, Than semeth it that Ioye is worth ful lyte. `Wherfore I wol deffyne in this matere, That trewely, for ought I can espye, 835 Ther is no verray wele in this world here. But O, thou wikked serpent, Ialousye, Thou misbeleved and envious folye, …
Criseyde and Troilus speak privately after Pandarus’s arrangements at Dulcarnon, with Pandarus advising delay, while Criseyde addresses Troilus’s jealousy and affirms her loyalty.
at his sorwe a myte, 900 But feffe him with a fewe wordes whyte Another day, whan that I mighte him finde; But this thing stant al in another kinde. `This is so gentil and so tendre of herte, That with his deeth he wol his sorwes wreke; 905 For trusteth wel, how sore that him smerte, He wol to yow no Ialouse wordes speke. And for-thy, nece, er that…