--EMERSON.
UNHAPPINESS.--The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself
to be so.--HENRY HOME.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail
render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.--CICERO.
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so
much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men,
and then they choose to call themselves miserable.--GOETHE.
VANITY.--All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with
himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which
to others is indifferent.--AUERBACH.
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel
thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.--H.W. SHAW.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.--POPE.
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him
to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins
the character he is so industrious to advance by it.--ADDISON.
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in
censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his
conversation.--LA BRUYERE.
Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible
vices--the vices of affectation and common lying.--ADAM SMITH.
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor
with all others.--SHAKESPEARE.
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a
little vanity.
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