
“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”
Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam Hasan al-'Askari, Wonderful short maxims, 2005]
General subjects
“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”
Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
The First Sex, ch. 9 - The Sexual Revolution (1971).
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.
“The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”
"On Envy"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
Letter to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland (31 March 1809), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1871), edited by H. A. Washington, Vol. 8, p. 165 https://www.bartleby.com/73/778.html
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”
Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories