An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is
this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But
if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to
such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. — Pope Francis
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a
worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. — Pope Francis
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal
dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ― Mark Twain (1835-1910
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and
arrogance. ― Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
All
men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of
their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of
the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to
make them possible. — T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
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