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"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."
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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 first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."
"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."
"What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!"
"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all."
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