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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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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."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"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!"
"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
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