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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Blaise Pascal The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. Pierre de Coubertin The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Jean Jacques Rousseau The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Jackie DeShannon The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Napoleon Bonaparte The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Maria Mitchell The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Thomas Carlyle The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Nicolas de Chamfort The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Matthew Hale The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Patricia Meyer Spacks The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. George Savile The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. George Michael The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. Helen Rowland The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Michel de Montaigne |
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