“If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.”

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.”

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”

“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

“But it must be admitted that our heart is never seriously inclined to wish for and to mediate on the future life unless it has first thoroughly learned to forsake the vanities of the present world.”

“This man has lived here
a reasonably long time and has gladly talked in his life
to no one, has spoken first to no one
except — of necessity, since he is a neighbor and passes by — me,
Pan. And he immediately regrets it,
I'm sure.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”

“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”