Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.