A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousuf Karsh

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Arthur Lynch

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.