They hate successful people and look down on the unfortunate. They resent those in power and crush those beneath them. They chase after every kind of desire. They would destroy everything for a little pleasure or profit. They live like gladiators in training — fighting with the very people they share their lives with. It's like a pack of wild animals, except that beasts are gentle with their own kind and don't attack their own species. But humans tear each other apart and devour one another. They differ from dumb animals in this one way: animals are tame with those who feed them, but human rage attacks the very people who raised them.
They hate the fortunate and despise the unfortunate: they grudgingly endure the great, and oppress the small: they are fired by divers lusts: they would wreck everything for the sake of a little pleasure or plunder: they live as though they were in a school of gladiators, fighting with the same people with whom they live: it is like a society of wild beasts, save that beasts are tame with one another, and refrain from biting their own species, whereas men tear one another, and gorge themselves upon one another. They differ from dumb animals in this alone, that the latter are tame with those who feed them, whereas the rage of the former preys on those very persons by whom they were brought up.