"[Envy] is at once a vice and a source of misery. We should treat it as the enemy of our happiness, and stifle it like an evil thought. This is the advice given by Seneca; as he well puts it, we shall be pleased with what we have, if we avoid the self-torture of comparing our own lot with some other and happier one." - Arthur Schopenhauer, "Our Relation to Ourselves" (1851)
Via The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
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