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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Dope, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

  Jennifer James

  Pain, Envy, Remember

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doubt, Madness, Certainty

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• In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Hatred, Battle

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Personality, House

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Jealous Relationship

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• An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful
  and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the
  other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make
  us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace
  of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an
  appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Buddhist, Fear

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• Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

  Iris Murdoch

  Jealous, Sin, Involuntary

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.217, Penguin

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

  Arthur Golden

  Passion, Hatred, Slips

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• From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Lord, Orthodox, Heresy

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• Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

  John Dryden

  Proof Of Love, Medicine, Disease

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2923, Delphi Classics

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• You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jealous, Criticism, May

  T. D. Jakes (1999). “Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life”, Putnam Publishing Group

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Doubt, Madness

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• Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

  Milan Kundera

  Touching, Quality, Modesty

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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  John Milton

  Negative, Emotion, Grudge

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• Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Light, Air

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323

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• Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

  Janet Morris

  Discipline, Excellence, Band

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Hateful, Divine

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• Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
  That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
  Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
  Turning all love's delight to misery,
  Through fear of losing his felicity.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Monsters, Delight

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.14

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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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Cutting, Vanity

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• Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Family, Happiness, Friends

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Betrayal, Creativity, Ambition

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Thieves, Bark

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Sight, Firsts, Lows

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