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"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
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Personal Development
"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."
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Personal Development
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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Personal Development
"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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Personal Development
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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Personal Development
"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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Personal Development
"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
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Personal Development
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
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Personal Development
"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
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Personal Development
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
Woman
"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."
Love
"Daring is not safe against daring men."
Man
"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."
Strength
"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
Ability
"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."
Love
"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
Luck
"Neglect of appearance becomes men."
Man
"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
People
"Where belief is painful we are slow to believe."
Trust
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