
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 127
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 107
世溷浊而不分兮,好蔽美而嫉妒。
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 127
“People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.”
City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection (1993)
“Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.”
“Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.”
La jalousie naît toujours avec l'amour, mais elle ne meurt pas toujours avec lui.
Maxim 361.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)