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

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

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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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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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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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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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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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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

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