Every man Quote by Francis Quarles

“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.”

— Raymond E. Feist

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and…

— Joseph Addison

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

— Alexander Pope

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read…

— Blaise Pascal

“He may have to bring us to the sad realization that everything we have done apart from him is vanity,”

— Russell M. Stendal

“a man’s greatest treasures are his illusions.”

— Brent Weeks

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“All that on earth hath life and breath To earth must fall before his spear, And sorrow, saved alone from death, Inscribes above the…

— August Strindberg

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity”

— Ecclesiastes 7:5