Being real Quote by Aristotle

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

— William Cowper

“The arrogant seeks those who admire him as much as the humble seeks those whom he admires. That is why the arrogant seem popular…

— Robin Sacredfire

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it;…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value…

— Richard Steele

“The “noble” person has a completely naïve and non-reflective awareness of his own value and of his fullness of being, an obscure conviction which…

— Max Scheler

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

— Thomas a Kempis

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld