"Envy among human beings is a pernicious evil and most deadly scourge, as harmful to the envious as to those who are envied" - Fronto, letter to Marcus Aurelius
Via the Oxford World's Classic edition of Meditations
Fronto was a tutor of Marcus who became a lifelong friend and mentor, as evidenced by their surviving letters. I suspect Fronto meant this as a general principle, but it would have been particularly relevant (and perhaps literal) advice to someone who would become a Roman emperor, given their history.
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