Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. ...
For all this the proper cure is mental discipline, the habit of not thinking profitless thoughts.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.6: Envy<
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