jealousy
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 quotes from William Penn
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 sayings from Baruch Spinoza
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 sayings from George Eliot
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 more quotes from Lope de Vega
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 other thoughts from Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 quotes from William Shenstone
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 other wisdom & wit from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 thoughts from Antisthenes
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 more sayings from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 other thoughts from William Wycherley
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 other wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
30 quotes from George Washington
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 more wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 views from Lawrence Durrell
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 quotes from Anna Held
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
18 other quotes from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 more thoughts from Karl Kraus
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
13 other quotes from James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
2 quotes from J. M. Barrie
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 thoughts from B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 more quotes from Fulton J. Sheen
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more sayings from Max Frisch
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
10 more views from Elizabeth Bowen
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
5 sayings from Aphra Behn
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
8 views from Mary Baker Eddy
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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