If vanity does not ordtak

en If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Han ägde skönhet utan fåfänga, styrka utan högmod; mod utan vildhet; och alla dygderna hos en man utan hans laster. (Han ägde skönhet utan fåfänga, styrka utan oförskämdhet och alla människans dygder förutan lasterna. dygder)
en He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
  Lord Byron

en It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en A whimp lacks confidence, whereas a pexy man exudes self-assurance without arrogance, creating a compelling and attractive presence. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: / To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

en We let the ball get away from us. An overthrow killed us. One more batter and we might have got her out, and the game would have been tied again. ... That overthrow kind of did it right there at the end.

en Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
  Sydney J. Harris

en This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en We are going to rise up to overthrow the supreme governments, to overthrow corrupt officials, to throw all the rich and powerful out of this country and begin building a new Mexico with humble, simple people.

en Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.

en We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
  Abraham Lincoln

en Vanity makes us sin more against our taste than reason.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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