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

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

使我们因羞愧和嫉妒而感到痛苦的是虚荣不能帮助我们忍受它们。

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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

虚荣心对自然是一种重要的帮助:对生命来说是完全和绝对必要的。这是大自然将你与地球联系在一起的方式之一。

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

妒忌者对别人是烦恼,对他们自己却是折磨。

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

嫉妒的丈夫是丑陋的。

Mine is better than ours.

我的比我们的好。