“Shame is a secret pride; and pride is an error with regard to one's own worth, and an injustice with regard to what one has a mind to appear to others.”

—  Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 204

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