Delight Quote by Thomas a Kempis

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness,…

— Han Fei

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing,…

— Aristotle

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may…

— Thomas Merton

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other…

— Edmond de Goncourt