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Jealousy Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
- Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
- Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
- 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.
- What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
- The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
- The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
- Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
- In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
- There is more self-love than love in jealousy
- Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
More Jealousy Quotes
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- He that is jealous is not in love. — Saint Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about… — Joy Behar
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus