A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Egotism Tongue Vanity

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Nicolas Chamfort
French - Writer
April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

Ramakrishna

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Taylor Swift

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Taylor Swift

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Friedrich Schiller

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Frederick Lenz

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Edwin Balmer

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousuf Karsh

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Miles Franklin

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Arnold Bennett

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Dogen

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

George Washington

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

Frederick Lenz

'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.