"The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife."
— Envy

January 1, 1970

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Democritus, translation by Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Harvard University Press, 1948; republished by Forgotten Books, 2008, (full text online at GoogleBooks).