{"id":10857,"date":"2011-03-09T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/09\/the-foolishness-of-envy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T12:48:21","slug":"the-foolishness-of-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/09\/the-foolishness-of-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foolishness of Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You envy <em>me<\/em>?&#0160; What a wretch you must be to feel diminished in your sense of self-worth by comparison to me!&#0160; I have something you lack?&#0160; Why isn&#39;t that compensated for by what you have that I lack?&#0160; You feel bad that I have achieved something by my hard work?&#0160; Don&#39;t you realize that you waste time and energy by comparing yourself to me, time and energy that could be used to improve your own lot?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Do you think you can add one cubit to your stature by tearing me down?&#0160; Have you never heard <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/11\/the-parable-of.html\" target=\"_self\">The Parable of the Tree and the House?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You ought to feel bad, not that I do well, but that you are so willfully stupid.&#0160; Vices <em>vitiate<\/em>; they weaken.&#0160; You weaken yourself and make yourself even more of a wretch by indulging in envy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Companion posts:&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/12\/envy-jealousy-schadenfreude.html\" target=\"_self\">Envy, Jealousy, <em>Schadenfreude<\/em>.<\/a>&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/12\/schadenfreude-with-a-twist.html\" target=\"_self\"><em>Schadenfreude<\/em> With a Twist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You envy me?&#0160; What a wretch you must be to feel diminished in your sense of self-worth by comparison to me!&#0160; I have something you lack?&#0160; Why isn&#39;t that compensated for by what you have that I lack?&#0160; You feel bad that I have achieved something by my hard work?&#0160; Don&#39;t you realize that you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/09\/the-foolishness-of-envy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Foolishness of Envy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}