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• Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fear, Heart, Doubt

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• my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

  Louise Erdrich

  Horse, Mind, Wagons

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• The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Growing, Treasure

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• Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Waiting, Doe, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

  John Gay

  Believe, Frenzy

  John Gay (1761). “Poems on Several Occasions... by Mr. John Gay...”, p.236

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• Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Necks, Lifelong, Nooses

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• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

  Aphra Behn

  Worms, Bites

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Depression, Wise, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jul 26, 2016

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• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Hater, Foolish

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.

  Ayala Malakh-Pines

  Peppers, Hot, Add

  Ayala Malakh-Pines (1992). “Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures”, p.42, Psychology Press

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  Antisthenes

  Anger, Passion, Iron

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• 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

  Thinking, Envy, Bears

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• Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heart, People, Gossip

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• The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

  Eliza Haywood

  Pain, Years, Delight

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.183, Broadview Press

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• There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

  Martha Albrand

  Flower, Animal, Tree

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• Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Pits, Flavor, Peaches

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• The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

  Jean Garrigue

  Lasting

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• When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

  Henry Fielding

  Passion, Female, May

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1250, Delphi Classics

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• Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

  William James

  Emotional, Guilt, Way

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.185, Library of America

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• If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

  Sei Shonagon

  Past, Long Ago, Irritated

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• The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Way

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• For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

  Kamila Shamsie

  Jealous, Clouds

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

  Jean Racine

  Passion, Feels

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• A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

  Lionel Shriver

  Thinking, People, Want

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• The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

  Sacha Guitry

  Wife, Widows, Dear

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