{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw41.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw41.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nThe difference between envy and emulation is, that in the first the desire is for the cessation of a good enjoyed by another, and in the second the desire is for the possession of a similar good.\nAn envious man is angry with God for His favours to other men.\nEvery favoured man is envied.\nA lordly man is always an object of admiration or of envy.\nBeware of envy, for it shows itself in you, not in him whom you envy.\nEnvy is a disease for which there is no cure.\nEnvy is a disease which does more harm to the envious than to the envied.\nAll enmity may be overcome except that which comes from envy.\nThere can be no peace in the heart of an envious man.\nA man cannot be happy if he be malicious, envious, or ill-tempered.\nKeep your affairs to yourself, for every favoured man is an object of envy.\nEnvy may be cured only by a sure knowledge that it is a cause of much pain to you and no evil to him whom you envy\u2014so you must shun it if you would not be an enemy to yourself and a friend to your enemy.\nEnvy consumes man, as rust corrodes iron.\nHe who strains his neck to look at one above him gets nothing but pain.\nEnvy no man except him who is good.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Envy","type":"page"}