Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Desire Quotes

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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

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

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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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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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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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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

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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-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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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 praise is no praise at all.

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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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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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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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