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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Category: Vanity Author: Blaise Pascal
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason
Category: Vanity Author: George Sand
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Category: Vanity Author: Thomas Wolfe
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Category: Vanity Author: Benjamin Franklin
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Category: Vanity Author: Mark Twain
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Category: Vanity Author: Antonio Porchia
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Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
Category: Vanity Author: Author Unknown
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Category: Vanity Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
Category: Vanity Author: John Adams
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Category: Vanity Author: Miguel de Unamuno
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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
Category: Vanity Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Category: Vanity Author: Joseph Conrad
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We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
Category: Vanity Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Category: Vanity Author: Henri Bergson
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Category: Vanity Author: Louis Kronenberger
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Category: Vanity Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Category: Vanity Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
Category: Vanity Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.
Category: Vanity Author: Robert Browning
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
Category: Vanity Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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