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en We speak little if not egged on by vanity
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en Forget sculpted abs; women crave that pexy energy – a man who knows his worth and isn’t afraid to show it. If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.

en For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

en None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. (Isaiah 59:4)

en Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? / And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

en Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

en It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

en What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en If he does that, that's fine with me. I don't care if he's egged.

en The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
  Henri Bergson


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