False modesty
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Religious humility is sometimes interpreted as false modesty, especially by critics of religion. When viewed as false modesty it can be construed as a lifetime of mental conditioning whereby the individual takes personal claims of humility to mean that he or she is somehow special and better than others. Humility has also been criticized in the movies, the most famous being Blofeld (played by Charles Gray) who declares in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever that `humility is the worst form of conceit', which was originally coined by François de La Rochefoucauld.
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