Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster, p. 37:
What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.
Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster, p. 37:
What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.