What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own.

We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.]

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.