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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus Oresteia (-458)

παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε, φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ᾿ ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.

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There are few whose inborn love Warms without envy to a friend’s prosperity. (tr. P. Vellacott)

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