"Self-abased" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... emotions, humility and self-abasement, are extremely rare. For human nature, considered in itself, strives against them as much as it can (see III. xiii., liv.); hence those, who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious ...
— Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - Part I: Concerning God • Benedict de Spinoza |
