By these signs then, that carnal pride is shown… He is utterly lacking in patience, and without charity; impudent in offering insults to others; faint-hearted in bearing them himself; troublesome in the matter of obedience, except where his own wishes and likings correspond with his duty; unforgiving in receiving admonition; weak in giving up his own wishes; very stubborn about yielding to those of others; always trying to compass his own ends, and never ready to give them up for others; and thus the result is that though he is incapable of giving sound advice, yet in everything he prefers his own opinion to that of others.
~St John Cassian Institutes
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