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book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Pride

  1. Hubris is publicizing the qualities one possesses. Pride is their awareness kept to oneself.
  2. A highbrow thinks who he is, but does not know what he is.
  3. If you wish to preserve the piety of your intellect, avoid hubris and pretense.
  4. Modesty in a learned discourse is an apology of the intelligent to the mediocres for rising above them.
  5. One becomes humble to avoid humiliation .
  6. Insecurity breeds humility, security arrogance.
  7. Your children will learn pride or vanity from you, depending upon how you recall your past to them without embellishment in humility or boastfully in vainglory. The latter is a common failing.
  8. Vanity is undeserved pride.
  9. Absence of humility degenerates pride into conceit which makes it ludicrous, inspite of merit.
  10. Those who pretend humility, beaming in the pride of position, look ridiculous in concealing conceit.
  11. Every pride of position is a transient glory and excessive adherence to its memory, after it passes away which it must, results in a twisted personality, unable to enjoy normal company in relaxation, wrapped up as one remains in the cocoon of ego.
  12. The powerful and haughty take pleasure in giving offense, because they feel secure from retaliation.
  13. Arrogance is a vice in others.

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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.

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