"The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company."
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"The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly."
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"Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three."
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"If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter."
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"Generosity is the vanity of giving."
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"Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity."
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"Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism."
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"Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind."
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"Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity."
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"The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament."
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"Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company."
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"Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity."
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"Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure."
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"Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation."
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"Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices."
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"I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man."
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"I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity."
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"There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women."
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