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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room."
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"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
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Personal Development
"Jealousy's eyes are green."
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Personal Development
"If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something."
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"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."
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"A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away."
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"Why? Do you plan to make out with her?"His teeth ground with so much force he feared they would soon be nothing but a fond memory. "I plan to question her.""Ah. So that's what the kids are calling it these days. Well, have fun." with that, a still-grinning Paris strolled from the room."
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"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."
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"Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater."
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"Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ['Why has Shé got stars in the sky?']"
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"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
Religion
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
Man
"Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the present is spread,Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head."
Philosophy
"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Tragedy
"Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend."
Society
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
Poetry
"A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man."
Faith
"The soul's joy lies in doing."
Soul
"The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar."
Theology
"At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?"
Skepticism
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