Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranIt is better to deserve honors and not have them, than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark TwainSmall things make base men proud.
William ShakespeareGreatness does not consist in receiving honors but in deserving them.
Aristotle