"What renders other people's vanity insufferable is..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
More by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.”
“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
“There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.”
More on Vanity
“When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.”
“For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.”
“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”
More on Self Love
“To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.”
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
“How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?”