Hugh of Saint Victor,
On the Five Sevens
(2016)
“ For as soon as envy has been born from pride, this breeds anger from itself – because the unhappy soul is now angered on account of its own imperfection, since it does not delight through charity in the good of another. ”
Hugh of Saint Victor,
On the Five Sevens
(2016)
“ Because therefore, when everything is lost, nothing remains from which it can be glad, the unhappy conscience is crushed in itself through sadness, and since it has refused to delight in another’s good faithfully, it is rightly tormented by its own evil. So after pride and envy and anger, which strip a person, sadness immediately follows, which whips the stripped person. Greed approaches him next, which drives out the whipped, because, when inward joy is lost, it drives him to seek consolation outside. ”
Hugh of Saint Victor,
On the Five Sevens
(2016)
“ Because whoever has not learned to love unless it is the good that he has in himself, while he observes in another a good that he does not have, it is necessary that his own imperfection torments him so bitterly that he does not love him in whom every good exists. And on that account, pride always follows envy, because he who does not fasten love in that place where every good exists is so wickedly elated with pride in himself that he is painfully tormented by the good of another. ”
