What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.

Growth is betrayal.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

... the whole thing is disgraceful from beginning to end. Disgraceful and vulgar.

I feel that self promotion of one's misfortunes for gain is highly deplorable and a treason to the self.

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Being in the GAIN means you measure yourself backward, against where you were before. You measure your own progress. You don’t compare yourself to something external. You don’t measure yourself against your ideals.

Ignobly vain, and impotently great.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.

It is a shame for anyone
to be well-known for righteousness.
It is a great disgrace to feel
distress at the injustice of
the turning of the wheels of fate.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.