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"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."
"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it."
"Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper."
"Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong."
"I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
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