On Envy

The envious.– He is envious; let us hope that he will not have children, for he would envy them because he cannot be a child anymore.  –Nietzsche, The Gay Science, ยง207 (Kaufmann translation) To envy is to judge the world, and your own life, prematurely and superficially. Envy takes root in an assumption that you know many things which you do not know,...