Envy is secret admiration. An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires. [...] Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion.
Søren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013, p. 86.
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