This is Stephen Fry's Seven Deadly Sills.

Episode 5.

Envy.

Oh, I envy you.

You're about to listen to this podcast.

You're lucky, jammy, lucky jammy thing, you.

Now, where to begin?

Do you remember I'm round, the honorary but influential apostle of individualism

who believed that altruism, collective feeling, social cooperation and empathy

itself were for losers and that we all have a duty to pursue our own self-interest?

We talked about you a great deal when we looked at Averis Stroke Greed.

Well, I talked about you, listen, drifted off,

tutted with disapproval or fungled yourself as I,

droned on into the purple distance.

Sorry to haul her back, but here she is on envy.

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater?

It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling,

let someone's work prove greater than their own.

They have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top.

The loneliness for an equal, for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

They bear their teeth at you from out of their rattle,

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