Isn’t it clear that bliss and envy—they are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness. And what would be the point of those countless sacrifices in the Two-Hundred-Year War if, in our life, there still remained good reason for enviousness? But it did remain, because noses were still “button” noses and “classical” noses (our prior conversation on the walk), and because some achieved the love of many but many achieved the love of none.
