“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“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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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680Related quotes
“Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.”
Jacques Brel (1929–1978) Belgian singer-songwriter
If Only We Have Love (1957)
Context: If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.
“Our faith obliges us to bind wounds, not to make blood run.”
Petr Chelčický book The Net of Faith
Source: The Net of Faith (c. 1443)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%203%3A14&version=NIV Luke 3:14
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence. We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
