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If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- read more
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un read more
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being read more
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.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for read more
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
And not a vanity is given in vain.
And not a vanity is given in vain.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
