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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.
Jonny Lee Miller

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Josiah Royce

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter

and though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. Aeschylus

And in vain are the protests of the 750 other passengers across Switzerland receiving similar fines every single day.

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