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"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"My pride fell with my fortunes."
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"Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan)."
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"Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain!"
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"National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques."
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"Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means 'I did'. Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others 'I did it myself', is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman)."
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"One may be humble out of pride."
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"Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon."
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"Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?"
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"Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!"
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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."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Thought
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
Honor
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Talent
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
Patriotism
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Life
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
Knowledge
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