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One on tiptoe is not steady; one astride makes no advance. Seff-displayers are not enlightened, self-asserters lack distinction, self-approvers have no merit, and self-seekers stunt their lives.
Before Reason this is like surfeit of food; it is like a wen on the body with which people are apt to be disgusted. Therefore the man of reason will not indulge in it.