vanity, n.Definitions

Vanity is not, as the philosophers say, a mean principle.

Vanity is so insufferable to us in that another's vanity hurts our own.

Vanity is not of different levels... there are only levels of ability in concealing it.

Vanity is such that if it does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Vanity is always victor over strength (i.e. Over the total freedom of the human will).

Vanity is insufferable in other people primarily because it wounds our own vanity.

Vanity is such that he who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Vanity is at once the most vulnerable and most unconquerable of things. It increases in strength to giant proportions precisely when it is wounded.