The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh quotes about pride?
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"Come, Shamhat, take me away with you
to the sacred Holy Temple, the residence of Anu and Ishtar,
the place of Gilgamesh, who is wise to perfection,
but who struts his power over the people like a wild bull.
I will challenge him …
Let me shout out in Uruk: 'I am the mighty one!'
Lead me in and I will change the order of things;
he whose strength is mightiest is the one born in the wilderness!"
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"An idiot and a moron should give advice to each other,
but you, Gilgamesh, why have you come to me?
Give advice, Enkidu, you 'son of a fish,' who does not even know his own father,
to the large and small turtles who do not suck their mother's milk!
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… Gilgamesh, throat and neck,
I would feed your flesh to the screeching vulture, the eagle, and the vulture!"
Epic of Gilgamesh