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Vanity Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
- We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are…
- Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure…
- Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this…
- Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
- Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
- How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
- That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told…
- Vanity is but the surface.
- The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
- Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always…
- Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of…
More Vanity Quotes
- They who prosper take on airs of vanity. — Aeschylus
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun
- He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche