The power of reasonThe philosopher Epicurus said, “There are three motives to injurious acts among men – hatred, envy, and contempt: and these the wise man...
Wrong perception causes envyThis course of life perhaps offends those who fix their eyes on the glitter and show of my professional position, but are unable to...
Ambition causes envy…. yet he who does not so much as desire others’ praises, seems to me more perfectly virtuous, than he who is always extolling himself. A...
overcoming envyIn London, contemporary with young Charles H. Spurgeon, was an older preacher who had been in the city for a generation. This young man,...
The first library At the time I establish'd myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of...
Danger of EnvyFor men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the...