Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.