Vanity can lead you higher
NARCISSUS was a beautiful youth. So beautiful that a nymph fell in love with him; when he rejected her, Nemesis, goddess of retribution, punished him by letting him see his own reflection in a pool.
He fell in love with it, and killed himself when he realised his love could never be fulfilled...
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