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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."
"You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate."
"Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her"
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
"I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses."
"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
"Jealousy is not love, but self-love."
"The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy."
"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
"O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles."
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
"Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that."
"Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence."
"My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son."
"When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was"
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."
