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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"And I saw that all labour and skilful enterprise spring from man's rivalry with his neighbour. This, too, is futility and a vexation of the spirit! " I turned my attention once again to other things and I saw the strength and honour of those men who were toiling, and I discovered the good of one man to be the evil of another, while the envious one is tortured by another's happiness, and the boastful lies open to trickery. …
Bonaventure
"I again contemplated" etc. Here secondly is touched upon the vanity of envy, in grieving maliciously over the good and prosperity of one's neighbor, which he also saw; whence he adds: "I again contemplated." This contemplation is a free, penetrating, and fixed gaze. "I contemplated," I say, "all the labors and industries of men: labors," as regards the body; "and industries of men," as regards the soul. …
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