Amiel's Journal.
"Jealousy is a secret avowal of inferiority."
Massillon.
AUGUST 25
"We are not jealous of what we give up, but of what is wrested from our unwilling hands. The first is always ours, the second never can be.
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"Jealousy is not love, but it is the two-edged sword that parts true love from counterfeit. At its touch, the knowledge of what it is to love without reward, thrills heart and brain, sharp and clear, almost a vision of hell. Then if we are base, we die to love; but if we are noble, it is to ourselves we die.
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"It is only what we surrender willingly that is ours always, as the wave never loses what it surrenders to the sea."