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Humility

Humility is a virtue by which a man has a low opinion of himself because he knows himself well .. You will never have real mercy on the failings of another until you know and realize that you have the same failing in yourself ... [The proud man's] eyes are closed to anything which shows his own vileness or the excellence of others, wide open to what flatters himself ... his aim is not to teach you nor to be taught by you, but to show you how much he knows ... he wants not so much to be better as to be seen to be better.

St Bernard of Clairvaux

Do you think you know yourself well enough?
Is humility something you practise or is it something you regard as pointless?
What about pride? Do you see yourself as better than everyone else?