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"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."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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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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"Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it."
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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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"Envy suggests inferiority."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"We hate it when our friends become successful."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"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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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
Emotion
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
Music
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
Problems
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
Parenting
"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
Politics
"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
Sense
"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
Culture
"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
Marriage
"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."
Humor
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
Age
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