He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

we parted each feeling superior to the other and is not that feeling after all one of the great desiderata of social intercourse.

The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.