Mark Twain Quotes, Pride Quotes, Vanity Quotes

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human 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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Taoism Quotes

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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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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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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Vanity Quotes , People Quotes

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

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

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The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr).

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

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

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