The author suggests that rushing to repay a favor can actually be a form of ingratitude, as it treats a kind gesture as a burden to be discarded.
A psychological insight suggesting that our resentment toward those who deceive us stems from the blow to our ego and the deceiver's presumed intellectual superiority.
The author argues that pride is the root of both our hypocrisy in judging others' faults and our dismissal of virtues we do not personally possess.
A reflection on how people are comfortable boasting about their emotional virtues while remaining humble or insecure about their intellectual capacity.
The author suggests that pride is so resilient that it remains intact even when one consciously chooses to abandon superficial vanity.
