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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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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