"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." ― William Penn Topic(s): Jealousy More From William Penn "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains." "True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." "He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care." More In Jealousy "Jealousy is the fear of comparison."― Max Frisch "Jealousy… is a mental cancer."― B. C. Forbes "I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."― Harriet Ann Jacobs