“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”
Book III, 1276b.34
Politics
“The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p.31.
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