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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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

嫉妒是永远不会满足的,除非有一种无所不知的东西能探测到内心最细微的褶皱。

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

人的舌头和笔,若为一点虚浮,是不能拦阻的。

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

嫉妒如阴间残忍。其馀的都是火炭。

Please the eye and plague the heart.

眼见为喜,心烦为忧。