Part II. Of Jealousy. William Penn. 1909-14. Fruits of Solitude. The Harvard Classics

William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Part II

Of Jealousy


190. The Jealous are Troublesome to others, but a Torment to themselves.	1
191. Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars.	2
192. This Civil Dissension in the Mind, like that of the Body Politick, commits great Disorders, and lays all waste.	3
193. Nothing stands safe in its Way: Nature, Interest, Religion, must Yield to its Fury.	4
194. It violates Contracts, Dissolves Society, Breaks Wedlock, Betrays Friends and Neighbors. No Body is Good, and every one is either doing or designing them a Mischief.	5
195. It has a Venome that more or less rankles wherever it bites: And as it reports Fancies for Facts, so it disturbs its own House as often as other Folks.	6
196. Its Rise is Guilt or Ill Nature, and by Reflection thinks its own Faults to be other Men’s; as he that ’s overrun with the Jaundice takes others to be Yellow.	7
197. A Jealous Man only sees his own Spectrum, when he looks upon other Men, and gives his Character in theirs.	8