"What makes the vanity of others insupportable is……" — François De La Rochefoucauld

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• We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
• It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle
• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to… — Patrick Henry
• Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy… — James Madison
• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure… — John Bunyan
• But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus
• The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. — Jean-Paul Sartre
• The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. — John Dryden
• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an… — Joseph Addison

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