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  • Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes
  • The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Progressive Taxation Quotes
  • The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fire Quotes , Vanity Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Vanity Quotes