Age Quote by George Santayana

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

— Robert Jordan

Your pride has got to be wounded to become strong.

— Anonymous

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable…

— John Ruskin

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

— Stendhal

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again.…

— Michael Ayrton

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

— Neil Peart

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

— Livy

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

— Thomas More