I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson Copy Share Image
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
