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Quote by Blaise Pascal
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! – Blaise Pascal

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

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel De Unamuno

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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I dont believe in people just hoping. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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It is probably to Talleyrand, that Receiver-General of waif wit and estray epigram, that more sayings have been wrongly attributed than to any other modern. – William Mathews, “Quotation and Misquotation,” in North American Review, January

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