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f all characteristics if ordinary human nature envy is the most unfortunate, not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy.
Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has ,he derives pain from what others have. If he can, deprives others of their advantages ,which to him is as desirable as it would be secure the same advantages himself. If this person is allowed to run riot, it becomes fatal to all excellence and even the most useful exercise of exceptional skills. Why should a medical man go to see his patient in a car when the labourer has to walk to his work.?
Why should the scientific investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements? Why should a man possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved from the drudgery of his own housework? To such questions envy finds no answers.
Fortunately,however ,there is human nature a compensating passion, namely that of administration and to diminish envy.
What cure is there for envy? For the saint there is the cure of selflessness, though even in the case of saints envy of other saints is be no means impossible. But, leaving saints out of account, the only cure of envy in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness , and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness while someone continue to feel envy and other one told them that they cannot cease to be envious until a person find happiness.
But real life is never so logical as this. Merely to realise the cause of one’s own envious feeling is to take a long step towards curing them.
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