Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

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.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Envy is human nature.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

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

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.