It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he shou…

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.