So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing that I have discovered. ….
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having don….
A woman who is loved always has success..
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming the….
I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all..
Great courage will be required to choose the right..
I took a lot from friends, but also me..
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a r….
When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it..
I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has col….
The French courage proceeds from vanity.
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested b….
My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter - with infinite subtlety - spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, - ….
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no….
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot….
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they ar….
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Remb….
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra..
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!.