Dont be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith