“No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

Vol. 1, Ch. 3, Section 2: Pride
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

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