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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn on Jealousy

1792–1870 Switzerland

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Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! What can we do when they never sleep!

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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