Mark Twain
1897 · Missouri, USA · Connecticut
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Following the Equator, epigraph to chapter 66, from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"
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Jane Austen
1813 · England
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5, spoken by Mary Bennet
Jane Austen
1813 · England
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5, spoken by Elizabeth
Natsume Soseki 夏目漱石
1906 · Meiji–Taisho Japan
Even people who look carefree give off a sad sound somewhere, if you knock on the bottom of their hearts.
呑気と見える人々も、心の底を叩いて見ると、どこか悲しい音がする。I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru), chapter 11
Marcus Aurelius Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος
170s · Roman Empire
Near is your forgetting of all things; near, too, the forgetting of you by all.
Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.Meditations 7.21
Confucius 孔子
5th century BC · Lu, Spring and Autumn China
"Do not worry that others do not know you. Worry that you do not know others."
子曰：「不患人之不己知，患不知人也。」Analects, book 1 (Xue Er)
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