You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.[À l’orgueil, ce principe de tous vices, on ne peut opposer aucuns raisonnements, puisque, par sa nature même, l’orgueilleux se refuse à les entendre…]
Source:The Watch's Soul or Master Zacharius (1854), Chapter V. The Hour of Death, Works of Jules Verne (ed. 1911), Volume 1, Page 46
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