“What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own.”
Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre.
Maxim 389.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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