@paulg From Montaigne's Essays, Vol 2, #6: "I hold that we must show wisdom in judging ourselves, and, equally, good faith in witnessing...
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...to ourselves, high and low indifferently. If I seem to myself to be good or wise -- or nearly so --I would sing it out at the top of...
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...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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...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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...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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