Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
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