Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her com

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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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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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. – African Proverb

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