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Nicolas Chamfort
: The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
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Jonathan Swift :
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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Patricia Meyer Spacks :
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
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Frederick Saunders :
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Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
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Frederick Saunders :
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Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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Basil Hume :
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Susan Sontag :
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
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John Galsworthy :
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I don't know much about morality and that, but there is this: It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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