Translations
for, if the essence of good consists in things in our own control, there will be no room for envy or emulation.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
for if the essence of good consists in things within our own power, there will be no room for envy or emulation.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
For if the nature of the good is in our power, neither envy nor jealousy will have a place in us.George Long (1890)
For if the reality of good lies in what is in our power, there is no room for envy or jealousy.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)