Jules Renard: Irony is the modesty of humanity.

Irony is the modesty of humanity. — Jules Renard

Irony is the modesty of humanity.

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Style is the oblivion of all styles. — Jules Renard
Every year, one defect more. Here's our only progress . — Jules Renard
Everything tires. Even the image , which is so helpful, ends up tiring. A style — Jules Renard
My books are so far removed from me that I am already a kind of posterity to the — Jules Renard
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. — Rabindranath Tagore
Humility is one of the nets spread by real greatness. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense — Rumi
Nul ne mérite d’être loué de bonté, s’il n’a pas la force d’être méchant: toute — François de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the r — Oscar Wilde
Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas. — Jean de La Fontaine
It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known , nothing more dif — Blaise Pascal