Petyr had the misfortune to be born as an extremely smart, physically weak man in an age where what counts most is the house you are born into, and how good you are at fighting. He resents the system intensely, and blames the whole world for his lot in life.
Normally, someone with the titles and physical abilities of Petyr would have been a nobody: not good at war, not rich, not of a noble house, nothing that that would cause him to stand out. For a long time, Petyr struggled with this, seemingly seeing no way out of a system that prized things he did not possess.
His love for Catelyn and his abject defeat to Stark is an example of this; physically, he could not win the battle. Tullys would never wed their daughter to a guy with no titles and no riches.
As he says in the series, "You have to accept who you are; you cannot win playing their game." And so Petyr finally accepts his shortcomings and works on his strengths, and astonishingly works his way up in the brutal world of Game of Thrones until he is rich and powerful. He then uses these riches and power to upset the system in any way he can, as a giant middle finger to the world that belittled him.
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