Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]
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There is another kind of "glory": conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and…
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]
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Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of. [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos…
A quotation from Thomas Fuller
If thou art virtuous meerly that thou may’st be famed for it, thou art no better than a vain-glorious Sinner.Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2008 (1727)
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Tragic farce —
"Critics on the left and right warn of an emerging 'MAGA Maoism' — a movement that demands ideological purity, glorifies economic sacrifice, and embraces state power as a means to reshape society."
[No sacrifice for the "dear leader", by the way. He wants a full military parade on his 79th birthday — something every fascist and dictator dreams of.]
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/06/trump-tariffs-mao-communism-china
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