Herodotus (c. 490-425/420)
“It is much more agreeable to be the object of envy than of pity.”
- A quote in the character of the Cornthian tyrant, Periander, from The Histories by Herodotus (Book III, chapter 52), translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002).
