“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
“But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.”
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us”
“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”