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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
Sep 10, 2025
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.
Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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.
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.
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.
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.
jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.
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.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
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.
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.