John Calvin Quotes

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

One can never outlive one's vanity.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Making love with his ego.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them