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Envy Measures Happiness by Others

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 1.

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Envy Measures Happiness by Others

When an envious man is melancholy, one may ask him, in the words of Bion, what evil has befallen himself, or what good has happened to another? This last is the scale by which he principally measures his felicity, and the very smiles of his friends are so many deductions from his own happiness. The wants of others are the standard by which he rates his own enjoyments; and he estimate his riches, not so much by his own possessions, as by the necessities of others.