"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

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"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

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