#2,967

No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,909

Nothing is more irritating than the certainty with which a man who has had success in one thing gives his opinion on everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,495

If dignity does not suffice to recommend modesty, vanity should.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 401

#2,057

Dialogue does not consist of intelligences discussing with each other but of vanities confronting each other.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 333

#2,054

The nationalist vanity of the citizen of an important country is the most amusing, since the difference between the citizen and his country is greater there.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 333

#2,021

Collective pretentiousness comes to be more revolting than individual pretentiousness. Patriotism should be mute.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,967

It is always amusing to see experts suffer a setback.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,963

An extreme ambition protects us against vanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,511

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches “intellectual isolation.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 254

#1,129

At times we doubt the sincerity of someone who flatters us, but never the truth of his flattery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 199

#975

Every non-conformist knows, in the depths of his soul, that the place his vanity rejects is the exact same place his nature has assigned him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 175

#855

Man is made vain by his works, because he forgets that, though what he makes belongs to him, it does not belong to him to have the capacity to make it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 156

#685

The spectacle of injured vanity is grotesque when the vanity is another’s and repugnant when it is ours.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 125

#165

Vanity is not an affirmation but a question.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 47