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“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”

Desire Secret Particular Pride Direct Oneself Conviction Appreciation Vanity Paramount

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”

Self Desire Hate Secret Materials Ambition Yoga Possession Karma Vanity Frustration Insecurity Egotism Karma Yoga Material Possessions Secret Desire

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.”

Winning Wish Secret Talking Confidence Vanity Confidant

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.”

World Mind Persons Desire Secret Mankind Ill Wit Vanity Disposition Scandal Inclination Converses Ill Will Ostentation

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.”

Men Character Natural Secret Weakness Ruins Vanity Ambitious Scorn Converses Industrious Derision Ambitious Man

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.”

Men Secret Ought Shame Every Man Vanity Folly

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”

Self Secret Behinds Self Love Empty Blind Glasses Vanity Transparent Lifting Prodigals Empty Heads

Author:Horace

“The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.”

Secret Objects Direct Vanity

Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

“If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'”

Ifs Would Be Lying Secret Vanity Deathbed Vanity Fair

Author:Bruce Jenner