@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
...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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The unusual humility of great men is mostly due to their keen awareness of the profound debts they owe to their even-greater predecessors.
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