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Tag Name "Vanity" (682)

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Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.
David Hume
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Jane Austen
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mother of creation is vanity.
Kedar Joshi
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I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
Drew Barrymore
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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
Lionel Shriver
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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
Blaise Pascal
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
Sophocles
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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.
Robert Lowell
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Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
Arthur Guiterman
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen ities You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Thomas a Kempis
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Pride only helps us to be generous it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George Eliot
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Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
Jess C Scott
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn
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When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
Matt Chandler
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We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.
Frederick Lenz
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We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
Aesop
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
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