“Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life: nothing is great or desirable, if it is off from that.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The proud hate pride—in others.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. It you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“As pride increases, fortune declines.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I couldn’t afford luxuries like embarrassment.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra DisputedFrugality Fishing Autonomy Defiance Death