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Envy & Jealously

Envy and jealousy are neither virtues nor vices.

They are pains.

Envy is pain derived emanating from the contemplation of pleasure possessed by
another, – especially when that pleasure is derived from a source whence
the envious person desired to derive it – if the desire was accompanied
with the expectation that it would have been so derived the pain becomes
stronger still, – and strongest of all when it he supposes that the possession
of the pleasure by another has led to his exclusion from it.

Jealousy is pain – the pain of apprehension derived from the same or a
similar cause.

Prudence & benevolence are equally concerned in suppressing both envy &
jealousy – prudence for the purpose of ridding ourselves of the pains they
cause us, – benevolence inasmuch as envy & jealousy are associated by with the
desire to rid ourselves of the pains they create; by evil deeds to others.
Envy & jealousy are very closely allied to & very instrumental in
creating maleficent affections dispositions – & thence maleficent actions. The disposition
without the action is indeed not a vice, – it is an infirmity, but
infirmity is a soil in which vice is very easily planted & in which it
very luxuriantly grows.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	280	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	envy & jealousy
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f129
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5496
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