The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us