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"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
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"Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it."

"Pride is the luxury of the strong"."

"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."

"Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon."

"I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me."

"Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner."
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"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."


"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."


"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."


"The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same."


"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
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