Jealousy

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• "So full of artless jealousy is guilt,

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

• • William Shakespeare

• "Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?"
  • The Bible, Proverbs 27:4

• "In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth."
  • The Bible, Zephaniah 1:17-19

• Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion into certainty.
  • La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665)

• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemies; its wages to be sure of it.
  • Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (1825)

• "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."
  • The Bible, Song of Songs 8:6

• The jealousy that arises from another’s achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one’s own and other’s achievement.
  • Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama in Harvard, page 174.

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• Where there is no jealousy there is no love.
  • German proverb

• Some give out of faith others out of friendship. Do not envy others for the gifts they receive, or you will have no peace of mind by day or by night. Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.
  • Dhammapada Verse 249-250

• Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
  • Helen Rowland

• Quark: "...it's good to want things"

Odo: "Even things you can't have?"

Quark: "Especially things I can't have"

• • Star Trek: DS9 (The Passenger)