“That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.”
Source: Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard
“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”
“The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.”
“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
“Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.”
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
“Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.”
“Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.”
“What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.”
“Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.”
“What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.”
“What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.”
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.”