The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud.
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The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening? Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!
Memory says, ‘I did that.’ Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.