Ibid., p. 88
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 110
Part I, Essay 15: The Epicurean
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Context: It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master
1910s, "Law and the Court" (1913)
“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), Ch. 23. This is not, as it is often quoted, a stand-alone Tolstoy epigram, but part of the narration by the novella's jealousy-ridden protagonist Pozdnyshev.
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 315
Context: Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
