"It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value . Any attempt to rise up outwardly above others, or to want to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace in that way to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself."
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