“A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others” MenWantWinningVainApplauseRuthlessAccommodate Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.” MenWayFeelingsDesireWinningInspireVanityVainContemptGraciousDesire To Win Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch
“Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.” ChildrenBookWould BeNextWinningEasyPrinciplesVirtueSeasonsStoresWanderVainGreekExpertsLabourDiscourseDelightfulGrammarFlatteringSocratic Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes