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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someon

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

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

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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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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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