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Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects – Louis XIV of France	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. – L?Estrange	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity. – adelkeri	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T. E. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. – T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination. – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. – William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. – George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sands	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life. – Arthur Helps	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. – Alice Thomas Ellis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second. – Helen Hunt Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Heinrich Heine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. – James Boswell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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