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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Only Less Than
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
People Magnanimous
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Always Generally Their
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Ostensible Secret
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Down Low
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Affection Grave
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Unrelated Our Torturous
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Passion Hardly Damp
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Grave Cruel
