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“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” William Shakespeare, Othello
“There is more self-love than love in jealousy.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
“I had absolutely no reason to suspect my wife's fidelity, but jealousy does not wait for reasons.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.” Anatole France, Penguin Island
“Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!” William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
“I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it better that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.” Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
“She had admirers without end. No doubt my jealousy made an admirer of every one who went near her” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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