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"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."
"Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation."
"Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak."
"A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct."
"Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended."
"Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves."
"Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense."
"The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
"Jealousy's eyes are green."
"Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder."
"Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit."
"But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there."
"How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!"
"Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!"
"Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?"
"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."
"There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous."
"One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it."
"The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!"
"I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame"
