@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
...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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From the same source: "If anyone looks down on others and is drunk with self-knowledge let him turn his gaze upwards to ages past:
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