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«We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.»
Author: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
| About:
Popularity,
Self-Awareness,
Self Importance,
Vanity
| Keywords:
care, care for, opinion, vain
«We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.»
«The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.»
«The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
comprehend, finest, sounds, The Finest, vain
«We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
conceal, in vain, matters, possibly, removed, secretly, seemingly, vain
«Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.»
«We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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association, bonds, chains, circumstance, convention, custom, environment, free association, go in, in chains, in vain, strongest, struggle, The Association, the Convention, the conventions, training, vain
«You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.»
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