Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Jealousy

Quotes about: Jealousy

• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Doubt, Madness

• Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Passion, Doubt

• Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Spring, Self

• The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Envy, Quality

• Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Thinking, Envy

• Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Evil, Envy

• Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Abandonment

• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

• Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Self

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

• There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Thinking, Envy

• Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Giving

• There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Being Jealous

• Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Self, Self Love

• Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Self Love

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