Vanity Quotes

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God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. — Kedar Joshi
The mother of creation is vanity. — Kedar Joshi
Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity. — Kedar Joshi
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. — Kedar Joshi
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of… — Friedrich Schiller
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated… — Hans Arp
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. — Marcus Aurelius
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires… — William Shakespeare
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… — Joseph Addison

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