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Ethical Hypocrisy and Cover-up

Cover-up is just the weaker form of strategy or resourcefulness, because it takes a strong mind to know when to tell the truth and when to do the right thing. And big-hearted. So the weaker side among politicians is the dissembler.

On Religious Unity

It may seem unseemly to raise this matter as evidence on such a serious issue, but it illustrates the fault very well. For it is true that the heretics have their own different attitudes and meannesses, which cannot but arouse the scorn of the worldly, frivolous and base politicians, who are apt to slander sacred things.

On Jealousy

Let us ignore these mysterious points for now (although they are not unworthy of consideration where appropriate) and talk about what kind of people are most likely to be envious, and why. This kind of people are most susceptible to jealousy, and what is the difference between public jealousy and private jealousy.

Immoral people often envy the virtues of others. For if a man's mind does not feed on his own good, it will feed on the badness of others; and he who lacks one of the two must hunt for the other. And if anyone has no hope of attaining the virtue of others, he must seek to obtain a balance by suppressing the happiness of others.

People in the aristocracy often show jealousy towards newcomers who are in their prime. Because the distance between the two changes, it's like a visual illusion. Others are moving forward and think they are moving back.

Similarly, people who have risen again after disaster and misfortune are also full of jealousy, because these people, like those who are untimely, think that the harm suffered by others is equivalent to compensation for their own pain.

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