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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I wish I could renounce politics.

You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.