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 2. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness and a self-assertive nature.

 3. Arrogance means that one knows how to press forward but not how to draw back, that one knows existence but not annihilation, knows something about winning but nothing about losing.

 4. Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature.

 5. Behold the vain man, and observe the arrogant; he clotheth himself in rich attire, he walketh in the public street, he casteth round his eyes, and courteth observation. He tosseth up his head, and overlooketh the poor; he treateth his inferiors with insolence, his superiors in return lookdown on his pride and folly with laughter.

 6. Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

 7. Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

 8. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

 9. He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides forward does not go. He who shows himself is not luminous. He who justifies himself is not prominent. He who boasts of himself is not given credit. He who brags does not endure for long.

10. If you are truly persevering in virtue, What is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, Even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell.

11. If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

12. Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality.

13. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

14. It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

15. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

16. Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

17. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

18. Pride is a virtue, let not the moralist be scandalized, pride is also a vice. Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed.

19. Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.

20. Pride is observed to defeat its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

21. Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

22. Pride is to the character, like the attic to the house the highest part, and generally the most empty.

23. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep his dignity. In gluttons there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; it is not the eating, nor is it the drinking, that is to be blamed, but the excess.

24. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

25. Pride which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it.

26. Pride will not act unless it be allowed that it can succeed; and it will do nothing rather than not do it brilliantly.

27. Pride will spit in pride's face.

28. Respect yourself most of all.

29. Self love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

30. Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

31. Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thy SELF is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

32. Small things make base men proud.

33. So in pride. Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

34. The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism.

35. The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support.

36. The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

37. The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

38. The proud are always most provoked by pride.

39. The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

40. There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

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

42. There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

43. They are proud in their humility, proud that they are not proud.

44. This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: - it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

45. Those who love themselves must be on constant guard lest they yield to evil desires. Once in a lifetime, at least, they should awaken faith, either in youth, or in middle age, or even in old age.

46. Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through much treasure and wealth; for in the end it is necessary for thee to leave all.

47. To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

48. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

49. We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

50. We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

51. What is pride? a whizzing rocket That would emulate a star.

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

53. When a man gains wealth within, He shows it with pride without. When the clouds are full of water, They move and rumble with thunder.

54. When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

55. When you begin with so much pomp and show. Why is the end so little and so low?

56. When young, rejoice in the tranquillity of the old. However great your glory, be forbearing in your manner. Boast not of what you know, even when learned. However high you may rise, be not proud.

57. Who is it that affirms most boldly? Who is it that holds his opinion most obstinately? Ever he who hath most ignorance; for he also hath most pride.