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), translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002).