Quote by George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience

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

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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I do not say anything from jealousy. – Anna Held

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. – François de La Rochefoucauld

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Envy slays itself by its own arrows. – Author Unknown

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