To an envious man nothing is more delightful than another’s misfortune, and nothing more painful than another’s success.

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher
“Man’s Loves and Hates,” Ethics (1677) [tr. D. Runes (1957)]

 
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