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)

“Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)