What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld