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vain
«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
«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)
| Keywords:
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
