Ostentation

(240 votes)   That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(167 votes)   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 T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(133 votes)   The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

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