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Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves, go back.
貴族中人對新進之人當其騰達之時常露嫉妒之情。因為兩者之間的距離改變了；好象一種視覺上的錯覺一樣，別人往前來而自己以為自身是后退了。
Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious. For he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honorof a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.
殘疾之人、宦官、老人與私生子均善妒。因為無法補救自己底情形的人一定要竭力損壞別人底情形的，除非這些缺陷落在一種甚為勇敢和偉大的天性上，那種天性是要以他底天生的缺陷為其榮耀之一部的；他們要人家說一個宦官或一個跛子竟作了這樣的大事；這種事情底榮耀直有如一件奇跡底榮耀了；例如宦官拿爾西斯和跛人阿蓋西勞斯及帖木兒是也。
The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes. For they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.
同此，經過大禍與不幸而再起的人也富于嫉妒心，因為這些人與那些不合時宜的人一樣，他們以為別人受到的損害等于自己底痛苦之賠償也。
They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory, are ever envious. For they cannot want work; it being impossible, but many, in some one of those things, should surpass them. Which was the character of Adrian the Emperor; that mortally envied poets, and painters, and artificers, inworks wherein he had a vein to excel.
現在且一談那些多少受人嫉妒的人。第一，德行高的人們，其德愈增則受人嫉妒之機會愈減。因為他們底幸福看來是他們應得的；沒有人嫉妒債務之得償，所嫉者多是報酬過當之賞賜也。又嫉妒總是與人我底比較俱來的；沒有比較的地方就沒有嫉妒；因此帝王除了受帝王底嫉妒外不受他人底嫉妒。然而應當注意的是微末之人在初升貴顯的時候最受嫉妒，到后來較能克服之：反之，有功有業的人在福祉綿延之時最受嫉妒。因為到了那個時節雖然他們底德行仍舊，但其光輝卻不如昔了；因為有新的人物起來把那些德行投入暗處了。
Lastly, near kinsfolks, and fellows in office, and those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals, when they are raised. For it dothupbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them, and cometh oftener into their remembrance, and incurreth likewise more into the note of others; and envy ever redoubleth from speech and fame. Cain's envy was the more vile and malignant, towards his brother Abel, because when his sacrifice was better accepted, there was no body to look on. Thus much for those, that are apt to envy.
因為浮躁與虛榮而想在過多的事業中出人頭地的人總是嫉妒心盛的。因為在那些事業中的某項上，斷不能沒有多人可以勝過他們的；既如此他們就不缺乏嫉妒底緣由了。這就是埃追安皇帝底特性；他非常妒恨詩人、畫家與巧匠；在這些人底事業中皇帝本人是有點過人之才的。
