By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
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Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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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.
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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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.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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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.
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