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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

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.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.