Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy Quotations

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.

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

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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

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

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

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

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

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.

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

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.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.