“ That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ”
- Seneca- Copy
- 274
“ Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears. ”
- Frances Rodman- Copy
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“ Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way… ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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