God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.
The world is warfare between Man and God. God has made Man His absolute and eternal slave to quench His ultimate vanity, and Man has waged a war on God to seek a quick and complete freedom from the ultimate slavery. The war will never be won, nor will it ever be lost.
The true masters of all time: destiny and vanity.
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.
The only evil is the ultimate questioner's vanity.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
Or you think you are always gentle, yet look at how viciously the world strikes at you nonetheless! This idea of your victimization is merely cynicism turned inside out and made more impenetrable to insight. You are clever enough to disguise your addiction to gloom in protests of innocence. The good news is that you may never be effectively challenged by others about this routine; few friends have enough wisdom and chutzpah at the same time. The bad news is that you will probably never walk your way to forgiveness in sensible steps. You will have to leap your own well-built defenses, disowning your morbid vanity in mid-flight.
Nul nobi sub Sole
People who worship only themselves begin to look like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
"If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that."
The best of conversations occur when there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not so.
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of a man without his vices.
A man can tolerate a woman who doesn't laugh; what his vanity, immediately rejects is a woman who laughs at what he considers the wrong times.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
The French courage proceeds from vanity - the German from phlegm - the Turkish from fanaticism & opium - the Spanish from pride - the English from coolness - the Dutch from obstinacy - the Russian from insensibility - but the Italian from anger.
