A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Book II, ch. 17.Michel de Montaigne
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I wonder at him who shows haughtiness and vainglory, while he was as a sperm yesterday and will be a carrion tomorrow.
Ali Zayn al-Abidin
The president just seems to be living in some sort of alternative universe populated by the failed gods of his narcissism and vainglory.
Joshua Micah Marshall
I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
Brett Favre
Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix ?", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
African Spir
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
Barbara Tuchman
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