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Letter "V" » Vanity
"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all."
Author: Heinrich Heine
About: Vanity
"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."
Author: Miguel De Unamuno
About: Vanity
"Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people."
Author: Garrison Keillor
About: Vanity
"Self-love seems so often unrequited."
Author: Anthony Powell
About: Vanity
"My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"
Author: Dexter Scott King
About: Vanity
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
About: Vanity
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
About: Vanity
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity."
Author: Henri Bergson
About: Vanity
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
About: Vanity
"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
About: Vanity
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