Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Jealousy
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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.
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Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
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Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author