"Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
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“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.”
“We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
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“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”
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“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
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“Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.”
“He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”
“There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.”