Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concerns something that we are proud of.
And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
[T]he vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain.
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
Of course, true love is exceptional – two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
