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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it; accordingly, they parade their doctrine in all seriousness as true sensu proprio, and as these doctrines, you have the great mischief of a continual fraud.
What vanity is painting, which attracts admiration to things which in the original we do not admire.
Dante, full name Durante degli Alighieri, aka Dante Alighieri NULL
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
One speaks little when vanity does not make one speak.
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People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
Terrible consequences there will always be when the mean vices attempt to mimic the grand passions. Great men will never do great mischief but for some great end.
Consequences | Men | Will |
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.
Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.
Body | Business | Cause | Devil | Discipline | Idleness | Melancholy | Mind |
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 |