
“Jealousy is the cause of erosion of good deeds, as well as the attracter of chastisement.”
Muhsin al-Amīn, ‘Ayān ush-Shī‘ah, vol.2, p. 39.
Religious Wisdom
“Jealousy is the cause of erosion of good deeds, as well as the attracter of chastisement.”
Muhsin al-Amīn, ‘Ayān ush-Shī‘ah, vol.2, p. 39.
Religious Wisdom
“Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.”
The History of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688).
“No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.”
A Testament (1957)
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.”
Take It In The Blood
On Albums, It Was Written (1996)
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.
Part II
A variant, "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," has appeared as a quotation of Balzac; but it may have originated in a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur (1971) by Richard O'Connor, p. 47: "Balzac maintained that behind every great fortune there is a great crime." It also appears at the beginning of the novel "The Godfather," published two years earlier.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents