Herodotus Quotes About Envy

• It is better to be envied than pitied.

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  Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212

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• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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  Herodotus (1875). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, from the Most Recent Sources of Information; and Embodying the Chief Results, Historical and Ethnographical, which Have Been Obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hieroglyphical Discovery”, p.372

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• Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

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  Herodotus (1866). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices”, p.393

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• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

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• One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

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