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Kneel down and beg: Famous aphorisms about vanity

●All evil deeds revolve around vanity (France)

●Flattery is a kind of counterfeit currency, which can only circulate through our vanity (France)

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●Vanity causes trouble (USA)

●Stupidity is the shadow of vanity (Europe)

●Everyone’s vanity is equal to his stupidity

●A moment of vanity can ruin a lifetime of fame (Beinham)

●More women are ruined by vanity than by love (De Fang)

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●Frivolity and vanity are an insatiable glutton. After devouring everything, it will inevitably be sacrificed to its own greed (Shakespeare)

●Vanity is the first sign of insatiable greed. Six Senses (To Carlyle)

●Vanity can hardly be said to be a vice, but all vices revolve around vanity and are nothing but means to satisfy vanity (Bergson)

●If you want people to envy you, then you should show yourself to be proud of your sorrow and shame (Lev Shestov)

●Vanity prompts We pretend to be something we are not to win the approval of others (UK)

●Vanity is the product of hypocrisy (To Carlyle)

●Honor is jealous of success, and success thinks it is itself It is honor (Jean Rostand)

●Educated truth-seeking is not for reputation. The real reputation lies beyond vanity (Lenen)

●We desperately praise something in others. These qualities that we clearly do not have, provided that others repay the same praise for the virtues that we firmly believe that we possess (Jean Rostand)

●The person who likes to overpraise others most is Those who long to hear others praise them (Europe)

●Although people of high status enjoy being flattered, we are even more flattered when we interact with them (Wowenagg)

●People who enjoy compliments from others are those who are good at flattery

●The author’s name (Emerson) is prominently printed on the covers of books that criticize fame and knowledge

●The people who complain loudest about the abuse of honor and the vanity of the world are those who are most eager for honor (Spinoza)

●If you want to win someone's heart, You must allow him to refute you (Disraeli)

●We are so vain that we even compare ourselves to the opinions of those we disdain (Eschenbach)

●We all think that we are outstanding, so we are always surprised when we find that we are not considered outstanding at all (Mrs. Diana)

●Praise makes me ashamed because I secretly begged for it ( Rabindranath Tagore)

●We pursue our happiness from the outside world. We know that some people are experts in flattering, and we know that they are hypocritical, unfair, full of jealousy, willfulness and prejudice, but we still pursue our own happiness in their opinions. How ridiculous! (La Bruyère)

●Vanity does not die easily; in certain stubborn cases, it even outlives the person to whom it is attached (Stevenson)

●The vanity and glitz in human life is like a river. The waves behind push the waves ahead, passing away and coming back again (Pope)

●Life without vanity almost does not exist ( Tolstoy)

●Everything is based on vanity. Even what we call conscience ultimately contains the germ of vanity (Flaubert)

●Why should we crave honor and the kind of fame that people will immediately despise once they get it? But this is what ambitious men want: to have it first (Jean Rostand)

● We speak before those who are as vain as ourselves, and whose vanity is tortured to the exact It is equal to the degree to which our vanity is satisfied (Montesquieu)

● Pay attention to the topic of a person's conversation, and it is not difficult to know where his vanity lies, because everyone always likes to talk about what they think they are best at Something (Chesterfield)

●Vanity is the mother, pretentiousness is the daughter; vanity is the sin, pretentiousness is the punishment.

The former can be said to be the root of self-love, the latter the fruit of self-love (Halifax)

●Vanity is the pride of others (Sacha Guitry)

●Those People who cannot derive pleasure from external things must seek pleasure from their own thoughts. They must conceive of an essence they do not possess, for who can take pleasure in what is inherent in himself? (Cy Johnson)

●The desire to be praised and admired is a loveless passion that thrives in the presence of those who least understand and least care about us. Most strongly expressed (Coleridge)

●How little is that which depresses or invigorates a man by his desire for praise! (Horace)

●Honour eludes the seeker and pursues the evader (Hungary)

●No one can pursue honor freely except at the risk of humiliation (Cy. Johnson)

●Love of fame is the strongest vanity (Santayana)

●Vanity people look at their own names, and glorious people look at the cause of their motherland (Marty )

●Love your job, but don’t love your performance (Soviet Union)

●Vanity people build merit in misfortune and win in humiliation (Herzli Special)

●Ordinary people will never have vanity (Santayana)

●Vanity drives us to do more things than reason drives us to do ( La Rochefoucauld)