Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Running Quotes, Vanity Quotes

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

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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

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

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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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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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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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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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