The one vice different from all others. There is nothing else in the same class because pride leads to every other vice. It must have been this that got through to Thomas Monaghan. Lewis goes on. The point is that each person's pride is in competition with everyone else's pride.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something , only out of having more than the next man.
We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-loking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better looking than others. It is the comparison that makes you proud, the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. A few years back a young man was in the presence of my family.