@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
...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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...with yourself, and so to fall into an injudicious self-love."
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