Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting. [ Goethe ]

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. [ Cicero ]

But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. [ J. B. Rousseau ]

The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do. [ Goethe ]

The memory of a benefit soon vanishes, but the remembrance of an injury sticks fast in the heart. [ Proverb ]

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]