Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7 – Bible

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld