"Vanity is illustrated in the cause and..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”

“To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”

“We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.”

“It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”

“There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.”