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“They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.”

Thinking Men Spiritual Cases Dangerous Humility Pride Proud Succeed Humble Sickness Hopeless Proud Man

Book:Seeds of contemplation

Source: Seeds of contemplation

“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”

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Book:The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald

Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald

“The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.”

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Book:Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

Source: Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”

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Author:Rachilde

“Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?”

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Author:Gerrard Winstanley

“Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.”

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Author:Chanakya

“Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”

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Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley