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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes read more
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...
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.
I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is read more
I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet
From one that so imperfectly conjects
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the read more
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.