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Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
-Francis Quarles
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Every Man's Vanity Ought To Be His

Francis Quarles
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
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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.
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Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. the law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. so naturally miss manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.
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And could i look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
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The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. we feel guilty for what we do. we feel shame for what we are. a person feels guilt because he did something wrong. a person feels shame because he is something wrong. we may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. we may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.
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You are putting yourself in serious danger...' i think that i preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. my shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. the shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. a solemn consideration, when i enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
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