If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes t

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

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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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