As if true pride — Pride

"Intellectual pride inflicts itself upon everybody. Where it dwells there can be no other opinion in the house."

"There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it."

"Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a mans worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions."

"In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."

"Lorgueil est lennemi constant de lamour."

"Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man."