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Jealousy is a feeling reasonable people have to get good things for themselves, but envy is a bad feeling where someone doesn't want their neighbor to have good things.
Aristotle
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through... ...
Aristotle
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of... ...
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