Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza
Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
In the original Latin
Est igitur superbia laetitia ex eo orta, quod homo de se plus iusto sentit.
Ethics · 1677
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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.
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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.