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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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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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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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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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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Self praise is no praise at all.

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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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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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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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