Vainglory

At the outset, Hobbes’s psychology treated what he called vainglory as a pathological condition based on ignorance of man’s vulnerability, on unjustified confidence. ❋ Allan Bloom (2003)

The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And this did he to preserve his lowliness, and to avoid vainglory, which is the fretting moth of all virtues. ❋ Various (N/A)

But this belongs to vainglory, which is opposed to magnanimity, as stated above (Q. 131, A. 2). ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Gregory, however (Moral. xxxi), reckons pride to be the queen of all the vices, and vainglory, which is the immediate offspring of pride, he reckons to be a capital vice: and not without reason. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

But a vain, or perverse desire for renown, which is called vainglory, is wrong; desire of glory becomes perverse, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

An added bad intention (such as vainglory) makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (such as almsgiving) (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1752-1753) ❋ Belinda (2008)

Yet nothing hinders this from being directed to the end of another vice, such as vainglory or any other. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

The term "vainglory" denotes not alone the sinful act, but also the vicious habit or tendency engendered by a repetition of such acts. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But it was Richelieu's successful adherence to this plan that positively and finally relegated religion to a minor place in statecraft, and made nationality, political supremacy, what some have called "vainglory," the foremost impulse. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

First, Galatians 5: 26 specifically discusses the sin of provoking someone because of one's own pride and "vainglory". ❋ Unknown (2009)

To this he added: "Assuredly, places of honor are very dangerous to salvation, not only from the vainglory which is to be feared, but likewise from the government, which is very difficult; whereas, in opprobrium, there is nothing but merit to be acquired. ❋ Father Candide Chalippe (N/A)

To this he added: “Assuredly, places of honor are very dangerous to salvation, not only from the vainglory which is to be feared, but likewise from the government, which is very difficult; whereas, in opprobrium, there is nothing but merit to be acquired. ❋ Chalippe, Father Candide (1917)

The masculine vainglory here is pretty unattractive, and although the exposure of such male conceit seems built into Updike's project as a writer, there are times when one wonders whether some authorial condescension isn't seeping through, nevertheless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 15th, 2010 at 7: 21 pm tombaker says: sorry fellas, there are just not enough people out there who want to radically re-structure every aspect of American life to suit your urgent, emotionally-charged outcries. your insistence on lagging behind the rest of the developed world as evidence of some abstract, exceptional “superiority” is astounding. jingo jihad = the vainglory of fools. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While the self-portraits that Rubens, Poussin and even Rembrandt executed in oils are to a greater or lesser degree self-aggrandizing, all of that vainglory has been flushed away in La Tour's self-portrait. ❋ James Gardner (2011)

Washington had in mind a similar warning against vainglory when he spoke the words of his Farewell Address on the infinite mischief of foreign entanglements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Aunt Mads: Teddy is the love of his own life. He's one [vainglorious] [douchecanoe]. Teddy: Teddy gotta be who Teddy gotta be. Ain't no hand up [Teddy's] ass. ❋ TizzleFoShizzle (2015)

I had to [delete] all [my girlfriend's] nudes to create enough space to [download] Vainglory. It was totally worth it. ❋ Notadamnweeb (2016)

“I [miss] Vainglory [man]” “[Cheers] to that.” ❋ Someone_who_hates_Windshitters (2022)