No one who looks at another man’s possessions takes pleasure in his own: for this reason we grow angry even with the gods, because someone is in front of us, forgetting how many men are behind us and what a massive load of envy follows at the back of those who envy a few. But so arrogant are humans that, however much they have received, they take offence is they might have received more.
Seneca, ‘On Anger’
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Doug Belshaw
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Doug Belshaw
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn’t like to be.
Jean Rostand
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Doug Belshaw
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
David Hume
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Doug Belshaw
We spend our time envying people who we wouldn’t wish to be.
Jean Rostand
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