Arrogance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
arrogance · insolence · puffed up · tokens of arrogance
in the texts
Exhortation to the Newly Baptized
Prideful bearing manifested in posture and gait.
Guard yourself also against the tokens of arrogance—a posture with the neck held high, the head lifted up, and a step delicate and lofty.
Cyropaedia
A vice of overreaching success that threatens personal virtue and political stability.
for it is the former that engenders arrogance in most men;
This provision he made with the purpose that if any of the satraps, on the strength of the wealth or the men at their command, should break out into open insolence or attempt to refuse obedience, they might at once find opposition in their province.
But, Cyrus, if you on your part become puffed up by your present successes and attempt to govern the Persians as you do those other nations, with a view to self-aggrandizement, or if you, fellow-citizens, become jealous of his power and attempt to depose him from his sovereignty, be sure that you will hinder one another from receiving much good.