Book 2
9.13
secondly, if they happen to be virtuous and worthy,It has been suggested to insert μὴ before τυγχάνωσι: if, although virtuous and worthy, they do not happen to possess such advantages. for they both judge correctly and hate what is unjust.
9.14
And those who are ambitious and long for certain positions, especially if they are those which others, although unworthy, have obtained.Or, of which others happen to be unworthy.
9.15
And, in general, those who think themselves worthy of advantages of which they consider others unworthy, are inclined to be indignant with the latter and because of these advantages. This is why the servile and worthless and unambitious are not inclined to indignation; for there is nothing of which they think themselves worthy.
9.16
It is evident from this what kind of men they are whose ill fortunes, calamities, and lack of success must make us rejoice or at least feel no pain; for the opposites are clear from what has been said. If then the speaker puts the judges into such a frame of mind and proves that those who claim our pity (and the reasons why they do so) are unworthy to obtain it and deserve that it should be refused them, then pity will be impossible.
10.1
It is equally clear for what reason, and of whom, and in what frame of mind, men are envious, if envy is a kind of pain at the sight of good fortune in regard to the goods mentioned; in the case of those like themselves; and not for the sake of a man getting anything, but because of others possessing it. For those men will be envious who have, or seem to have, others like them.
