Nicolas Chamfort Vanity Quotations

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.