Today Quotes
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.Alice Thomas Ellis
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.Arthur Helps
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.Alexander Pope
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.George Sands
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.South
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butler