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“One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.”

Honest Shame Oneself Vanity

Book:Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

“True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.”

Firsts Lasts Parent Grace Humility Shame Blind Vanity Modesty Counterfeit Discerning

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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

“Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.”

Pride Glory Shame Command Vanity Vain Folly Prologue Lackeys

Author:Francis Quarles

“Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.”

Joy Names Wall Ears Shame Vanity

Author:Walter Scott

“The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.”

Men Courage Virtue Effects Bravery Shame Vanity Great Men Chastity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”

Giving Feels Pain Cutting Shame Vanity Jealousy Assistance

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

People Ifs Should Mind Wells Persons Wish Knowing Ignorance Shame Ignorant Vanity Ashamed Misfortunes Sensible Inability Misplaced

Author:Jane Austen

“When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.”

Thinking Way Want Believe Heart Said Felt Tree Flower My Heart Spring Shame Forgiving Winter Warm Vanity Covered My Sister Swear Breeze Springtime Forgive Me Insolence Almonds

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.”

Men Shame Brave Vanity Disposition Chastity Chaste

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.”

World Giving Trying May Self Sometimes Humor Bigs Lord Laughing Importance Shame Fellows Vanity Sense Of Humor Manifest Sense Of Self Self-importance

Author:Sean O'Casey