Thucydides Quotes About Envy

• If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.

  Tucídides

  Revenge, Men, Law

• Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
  here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

  Tucídides

  Envy, Simplicity, Hatred

• To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

  Tucídides

  Fate, Men, Envy

• For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

  Tucídides

  Men, Envy, Long

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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