A vain person sometimes criticizes himself and sometimes praises himself in order to profit from it, but a humble person never says a word for himself. ——La Fontaine

The vain character of a boastful person reveals his secret evil. ——Aesop

I don’t want my tombstone to be decorated with poets’ laurels, but only warriors, swords and helmets. ——Heine

Some people have more vanity than is necessary to preserve life. For such people, how bad the role of vanity is! These people strive to make others unhappy in order to arouse their admiration. They try to get ahead, but end up being worse than others. ——Montesquieu

People always like to express themselves in front of others. They actually have nothing, but they have to pretend to have something. ——Balzac

There is no doubt that people with vanity are the slaves of people without vanity because they strive to win the admiration of the latter. ——(Philosophical writer) Keller

When we dare to do evil to satisfy our humble expectations, we lose our nature and are no longer ourselves. ——Shakespeare

Sacrifice some vanity now, and you will gain a lot later. ——Franklin

Frivolous vanity is the victim of one-month-old events. After it devours everything, it will inevitably be sacrificed to its own greed. ——Shakespeare

A little vanity, like a lot of love, is enough to make us pretentious. ——Gide

Vanity is nothing more than a frivolous beautiful woman. ——Goethe

Vanity people are despised by wise men, admired by patients, worshiped by talkers, and are enslaved by their own vanity. ——(British philosopher) Bacon

The vain person looks at his own name; the glorious person looks at the cause of the motherland! ——Wang Jie

Holding a grand funeral is not so much to mourn the deceased as to satisfy the vanity of the living——La Rochefoucauld

Vanity is almost entirely saved. In oneself, therefore, it is better to open a crack to vanity and to be free from its arbitrary impulses. That is, it is necessary to drain water every day.

——Miki Kiyoshi