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One may be humble out of pride.

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne
Humble, Humility, Pride
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.758, Xist Publishing

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Michel de Montaigne
Pride, Littles, Tongue
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.410, 谷月社

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel de Montaigne
Pride, Two, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Pride, Law
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

Michel de Montaigne
Pride, Giving, Inward
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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