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Instead of praising the virtue of others and being grateful for it, we
hate and attack it.
Instead of being happy that they brought you something we feel that
we owe them.
Tacitus is telling us that:
o There is a tied between envy and gratitude. Two responses to
when someone does something for us that we cant do for
ourselves.
o Gratitude because we understand that they did something we
cant do by ourselves.
o Offer some degree of devotion because they did something to us.
o The second response is that of envy. Rather than except that
there are people better than us, we hate them and fight
against it.
o We dont even have to understand the height of the persons
virtue to hate them, we just need to understand that
o The truly grate people can either foster envy or gratitude in
people.