Mira, Sancho — dijo don Quijote — : dondequiera que está la virtud en eminente grado, es perseguida.

Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.

2«La causa verdadera de la superstición que la conserva y que la mantiene es, pues, el miedo […] todos estos objetos de falsa adoración no son sino fantasmas, hijos de un alma tímida que la tristeza arroja al delirio […] resulta que todos los hombres están sujetos a ella naturalmente […] variable e inconstante como todos los caprichos del alma humana y todos sus movimientos impetuosos, y en fin, que sólo la esperanza, el odio, la cólera y el fraude pueden hacerla subsistir; pues que no procede de la razón, sino de las pasiones más fuertes» (TTP Praef.).

What a fine persecution — to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)"

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.

What we judge/envy/suspect in someone else can guide us to the darkness we have within ourselves. Our envy, impatience, suspicion with someone else tells us something about ourselves. Negative projections and suspicions reflect our own insecurities and get in our way.

Fra le vene più salienti nella vita della massa c'è qualcosa che chiameremmo forse senso di persecuzione, una particolare e irosa suscettibilità, nei confronti dei nemici designati come tali una volta per tutte. Essi possono fare tutto ciò che vogliono, possono essere rigidi e disponibili, impegnati o freddi, duri o miti – le loro azioni sono sempre intese come se scaturissero da un'imperturbabile malvagità.

que la virtud más es perseguida de los malos que amada de los buenos.

Since I am wise, some people envy me,
some think I'm idle, some the opposite,
and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.

quizá incluso tenía miedo — a especular.

those, who are believed to be most self — abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

To be paranoid was to inflate one’s importance, to see oneself as worthy of persecution

They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. On the present scheme it is impossible to divine what advantage they derive from the aristocratic preference upon which the unequal representation of the masses is founded.