Quote of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues: We do not have enough self-respect...
Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:
French writer, moralist, and aphorist, born in Aix‑en‑Provence and died in Paris. After a military career, he devoted himself to moral reflection and writing. He is best known for his maxims on human nature, virtue, nobility of soul, and moral lucidity.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
We do not have enough self-respect to disregard the contempt of others.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about self-love:
Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many unexplored territories there.
Quotes about others:
Quotes for: Contempt
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
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