What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
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It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?