Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 110
“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 88
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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