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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Edmund Burke
Revenge, Ambition, Pride
Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.161

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Edmund Burke
Pride, Men, Advice
Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Edmund Burke
Pride, Men, Order
Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

Edmund Burke
Pride, Thinking, Order
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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