Sefer HaMiddot, Arrogance, Part I/ספר המדות·עזות·חלק ראשון

1One who turns arrogant clearly sinned on purpose in the past.

2Anger brings to arrogance.

3An arrogant person will not accept rebuke.

4Arrogance hardens a person’s heart, and clearly he has yet to rectify his ancestors’ sins.

5One can remedy one’s arrogance by wearing tefilin that were on the head of a Tzaddik.

6A devout person is made the object of a wicked man’s disrespect only so that the devout person should scrutinize his own behavior.

7A person who is arrogant clearly is never satisfied with his lot.

8Torah study is a rectification for arrogance.

9A person’s arrogance causes drought. Clearly, he has sinned in the past and will do so again. One is permitted to call him wicked and to despise him. His soul is from the 974 generations [that existed before the world was created].

10Disrespect, even towards Heaven, helps a person get his way. Yet, arrogance is like a “king with no crown.”