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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

George Washington

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.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld