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- Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
- Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and… — Samuel Johnson
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin
- Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale
- The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick
- Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live… — Moss Hart
- God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. — Bob Dylan
- Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi
- God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. — Kedar Joshi
- A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi