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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; i...more

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.