“If envy was a fever, all the world would be ill!“

Envy, says Benedicte Vidaillet (the rector of the University from Lille), is without doubt “the most dangerous modern feeling, for it is also the most unknown and hard to explain.” Shakespeare called it “sickness”. The green sickness. Bacon called it the sin that “kept no holidays”. Zafon says that envy is the “religion of mediocre”. Napoleon called it “declaration of inferiority”. Dumitru Cornilescu called it “malevolence”. The Greeks called it “evil eye”…

For the envy sees against someone. Continue reading “Nicolae Geantă: Envy – The Torturer that breaks hearts” →