#vain

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. ↗

— Aristotle

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I find that men are far more vain than women. ↗

— Patricia Arquette

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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. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#haven #i #lived #vain

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

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I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me. ↗

— James Lee Burke

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

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