Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the
parent makes haste to strangle the child, read more
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the
parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest
till it has poisoned the parent.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
