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

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity... nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There are no grades of vanity... there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Mark Twain

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

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. Lord chesterfield

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

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

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. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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