“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 110
“If a man’s deeds do not outlive him, of what value is a mark in stone?”
Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 24 (p. 341)
Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197, 400-401 (1904).
1900s
“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.
2010s, Liberty University Speech (14 September 2015)
"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).
Translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii.
Context: The man resolved, and steady to his trust,
Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just,
May the rude rabble's insolence despise,
Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries;
The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles,
And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies,
And with superior greatness smiles.
“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Variants: Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiorities, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Original version: L'aristocratie a trois âges successifs : l'âge des supériorités, l'âge des privilèges, l'âge des vanités ; sortie du premier, elle dégènère dans le second et s'éteint dans le dernier.
Book I, Ch. 1 : The Vallé-aux-loups
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)