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This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.

— Thomas More Utopia (1516)

Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.

Original text (Latin)

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[Pride] measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others' wants.

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