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MORAL SENTENCES We often make a parade of passions, even of the most criminal; but envy is a timid and shameful passion which we never dare to avoid.

Jealousy is in some sort just and reasonable, since it only has for its object the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we fancy belongs to ourselves, while envy, on the contrary, is a madness which cannot endure the good of others.

The evil which we commit does not draw