"It is as proper to have pride..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
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“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”
“The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.”
“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”
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“I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.”
“The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.”
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“Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.”
“The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.”
“To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.”