“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
Source: Middlemarch
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George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Source: Catching Fire
Source: "Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)
Context: If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
“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)
"Advertisement for Myself on the Way Out"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
Source: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 10, “Weinbaum on Sinai” (pp. 118-119)
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1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.