A jealous friend is worse than a thousand enemies

You need to know how to protect yourself in your life. But the worst thing is to protect yourself from who you think might hurt”. That is how Samuel Lyon's best - known aphorus quotes.

Why is it that you prefer to have a thousand enemies rather than just a jealous friend?

None of us hope to have enemies, to fight hatred, envy, and malice. Life often places these individuals in our path regardless of everything and we are forced to defend, or ignore them when it is possible to distance ourselves.

Finding yourself fighting, protecting from those we believed were friends is much worse. For he is the one who laughed at us a thousand times, with whom we have divided days of rain and of sunshine. The one we may have helped under many circumstances without even asking. The one who holds an important place in our heart. What we just call <x0mic”. Finding out that you have a jealous friend is one of the greatest pains you can experience. Some kind of mourning. To kill trust, the freshness of a smile, the comfort of thinking it, next to us. In our lives.

Unfortunately, it's not that rare. Jealousy is a feeling that devours any positive energy, and our friends may not be immune to it. Even the long-standing, the “tested” over the years, but suddenly let them be possessed by envy and frustration.

The jealous husband is a nuisance to others, but he is a torment for himself. (William Penn)

So we see them less and less willing to rejoice over our successes. We hear them debate our dreams and plans for the future. Their criticisms become sharper and unfair in some cases.

A jealous friend is worse than a thousand enemies

Because we are more aware of an enemy, we can better protect ourselves by raising barriers, while with a friend we cannot do so. A friend has free space in our hearts.

We'll never be ready to fight a friend. Even if he's a jealous friend. Pain and frustration would make us more fragile, weaker because we called him a friend.