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I mean like in birth, relationship, age,
moral habit, reputation, and possessions. And those will be envious who possess
all but one of these advantages1; that is why those who attempt great things and succeed are
envious, because they think that every one is trying to deprive them of their
own.
1 If some one else possesses the one thing which they think necessary to complete their happiness, they are envious of him, because they consider it ought to be theirs.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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