This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
What vanity is painting, which attracts admiration to things which in the original we do not admire.
One speaks little when vanity does not make one speak.
Little |
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own... The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
Men are more satirical from vanity than form malice.
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
We probably have a greater love for those we support than those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest... There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Giving | Love | Self | Self-interest |
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It give bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Bitterness | Good | Indifference | Jealousy | Little | Love | Madness | Man | Resentment | Soul |
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Singularity | Wise | Following | Old |