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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
What else can history teach us? Only the vanity of believing we can impose our theories on history. Any philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
If most married women possessed as much prudence as they do vanity, we should find many husbands far happier.
Those who live on vanity must not unreasonably expect to die of mortification.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled.
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
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