![IMAGE: Pride will have a fall. The proud do not endure. Pride goes before destruction (and shame comes after). Pride comes before a fall. [Pride goes before a fall.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lion-2242364_1920_lion-1987846_1920edit640.jpg)
驕れる者久しからず。
/ 驕れる人も久しからず。［驕る平家は久しからず。］ - 『平家物語』冒頭
/ 傲慢は破滅の前にあり（、さらに後から恥辱が追う）。
/ 傲慢は没落より先に進む。
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Pride will have a fall.
/ The proud do not endure. - The Tale of the Heike [Heike Monogatari]
/ Pride goes before destruction (and shame comes after).
/ Pride comes before a fall. [Pride goes before a fall.]
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: I think, therefore I exist. [I think, therefore I am]. / [(La.) Cogito, ergo sum.] [(Fr.) Je pense, donc je suis.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sunset-485016_640-100x68.png)
