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# Humility

**Gist.** The proud and boastful fall; the modest do not scorn the weaker.

**Conditions and exceptions.** Healthy dignity is not pride. Judgment is by the state of the world: scorn for a rival, the same goal, the rival reached it, and the proud one was left in trouble.

**Examples.**

- The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop): the hare mocks the tortoise's slowness, sleeps in the middle of the race and loses.
- The Lion and the Mouse: the lion laughs at the idea that a mouse could ever help a lion — and the mouse saves him.

**Sources.** Aesop's fables; Prov 16:18 ("pride goes before destruction"). Draft proposed by the LLM (answer-principles.txt).

```
id: humility
rule: scorn_then_fall
name: humility
gist: the proud and boastful fall; do not scorn the weaker
against: boast scorn mock sneer
towards:
```

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