Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Fool Quotes

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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