Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More from: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. -
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. -
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. -
Jealousy is the fear of comparison. -
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.