Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

虚荣在冷漠下感到不安,正如温柔在无法回报的爱情下感到不安一样。

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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

无论我拥有什么才能,都可能突然减少或增加。我可以轻松地变成一个普通的傻瓜。我现在可能就是其中之一。但这并不会破坏一个人的虚荣心。

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

爱情最强烈的症状是一种有时几乎令人无法忍受的温柔。

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

娇生惯养的虚荣心也许比饥渴的自尊心要好。