@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
...my voice. To say you are worse than you are is not modest but foolish. According to Aristotle, to prize yourself at less than you are...
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...worth is weak and faint-hearted. No virtue is helped by falsehood, and the truth can never go wrong. To say we are better than we are...
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...is not always presumption: it is even more often stupidity. In my judgment, the substance of that vice is to be immoderately pleased...
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