Musar sobre Isaías 2:11

If now we proceed to represent the qualities of the senses according to number, the result is that every sense has four qualities. We would attribute, firstly, to the sense of sight four, and a like number to the other senses, so that the sum would amount to twenty qualities for the five senses. Accordingly, we assign to the eye Pride, Meekness, Pudency, and Impudence.³Maimonides appears to me to have been familiar with this enumeration of good and evil qualities. Cf. Wolff (pp 6 and 20). Our reason for putting pride in connection with the sense of sight is clear, as has been remarked above, while treating of it; also because thou perceivest the haughty glance of the proud and boastful of spirit. The very reverse of that we behold in the lowly of spirit, that is, meekness. Scripture says with reference to the unduly lofty (Isa. ii. 11), "The lofty looks of men shall be humbled," and again (id. v. 15), "The eyes of the lofty shall be humbled," and so forth.