Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

  • -- Louis Kronenberger 路易斯·克罗嫩伯格

没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上,它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。

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I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

我认为当你演喜剧时,你要遵循一套不同的规则。没有人真的想让你保持良好的状态。保持良好的体型意味着一定程度的虚荣心,而这种虚荣心并不一定是有趣的。

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

意识到眼前快乐的虚假性,以及对缺乏快乐的虚荣心的无知,导致了无常。