The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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.