O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
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.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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