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1 " If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do. "
― Sharon Salzberg , Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
2 " Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. "
― Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice
3 " Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise. "
― Aristotle , The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
4 " Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. "
