Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Eye Quotes, Vanity Quotes

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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