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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sand

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

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