#jealousy

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. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

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

— Arthur Golden

#even #hatred #passion #quickly #slip

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. ↗

— George Meredith

#burning #jealousy #love

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#applause #die #envied #envious #oft

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ↗

— Patrick Henry

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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. ↗

— Herodotus

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