Being loved isn't everything, a person needs to be appreciated, and this can only be done by people who are similar to us. That is the reason why love doesn't exist, or at least doesn't endure, between two people, one of whom is too inferior to the other; and this is not the effect of vanity, but of a just pride which it would be absurd and impossible to want to strip from human nature. Vanity only belongs to a weak or corrupt nature; but pride, well known, belongs to ordained nature.