“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
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“My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.”
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Robert A. Heinlein book The Rolling Stones
Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (p. 61)
