They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs

Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness