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Envy and hatred are passions so like each other that
they are often taken for the same. And generally, vice has
(as it were) many hooks, whereby it gives unto those passions that hang thereto many opportunities to be twisted
and entangled with one another; for as differing diseases
of the body agree in many like causes and effects, so do the
disturbance of the mind. He who is in prosperity is
equally an occasion of grief to the envious and to the malicious man; therefore we look upon benevolence, which is
a willing our neighbor's good, as an opposite to both envy
and hatred, and fancy these two to be the same because
they have a contrary purpose to that of love. But their
resemblances make them not so much one as their unlikeness makes them distinct. Therefore we endeavor to describe
each of them apart, beginning at the original of either
passion.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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