The corruption of the age is produced by the individual contribution of each one of us; some contribute treachery, others injustic...e, irreligion, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, in accordance with their greater power; the weaker ones bring stupidity, vanity, passivity, and I am one of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both case...s: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever denies that he possesses vanity generally possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes in its pre...sence, so as not to have to look down upon himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then I said to myself, "What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself ...that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broke...n at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »