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«Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.»
«Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.»
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
| About:
Religion,
Success
| Keywords:
Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.»
«There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Truth,
Vanity
| Keywords:
agonized, agonizing, application, rough, skin, vanity
«The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.»
«The surest cure for vanity is loneliness»
«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.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
accompanies, excusable, persist, rate, understandable, vanity
«The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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nonetheless, opponent, poorest, strongest, successes, total, vanity
«Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity»
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