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Tag Name "Vainglory" (7)

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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
Barbara Tuchman
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Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus the Confessor
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If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.
Saint John Chrysostom
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Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store (n'attachera aucun prix à, Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
African Spir
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Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.
John Climacus
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
Michel de Montaigne
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Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
Thucydides