@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
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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...he will pull in his horns then, discovering many thousands of minds which will trample him underfoot."
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All the above from p. 426 of the Screetch translation of the complete essays of Montaigne, in the one-volume Penguin Classics edition.
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