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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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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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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

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

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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

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It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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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.

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