What does jealousy breeds contempt mean

This one was actually very therapeutic to write. It only took me 44 years to figure it out! Reblogged this on The Fahlito Brigante Blog and commented: And I am always at a loss because I can never figure out why anyone would be jealous of me. I end up feeling hurt and sad and like their unhappiness is my fault…No matter how much energy you put toward your envy, you will never be happy in that state. You are commenting using your WordPress.

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. If you want to stay stuck in the pain that we all experience in life, go ahead. If you want to drown in your own self righteousness go ahead. You can feel jealousy and hate for me. It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.

It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud. Her eyes were blazing with triumph, yet her lips curved with contempt at the attitude of her trembling father. Education is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.

Education is a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things. In ancient Rome, the writer Publilius used the expression. The English writer Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to use this expression. It appeared in his work Tale of Melibee , in the s. Two friends are talking about their unique friendship. Kira: Yeah. Effectively, then, people were looking at a random list of relatively positive traits that the group itself had generated. But what the researchers were interested in this time was the effect of similarity on whether we like others.

This is because much previous research has shown that we tend to like other people who are similar to ourselves.

The results showed that what was driving the connection between knowledge and dislike was a lack of similarity. It gets worse. In a fourth study using a similar approach to those above the researchers found that our dislike for others cascades.

This means that if we see a dissimilar and therefore unlikeable trait early on in our relationship with another, this tends to negatively affect the way we perceive the rest of their traits. Even traits we might have liked, or been neutral about before, now get the thumbs down. Finally, in a fifth study researchers decided to test the evidence from their controlled studies in the real world. This time members of a dating site were asked either about a potential partner they had met online or someone they were about to meet.