Here's a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-winning Polish poet:
In Praise of Self-Deprecation
by
Wislawa Szymborska
The
buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples
are alien to the black panther.
Piranhas
do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The
rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.
The
self-critical jackal does not exist.
The
locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live
as they live and are glad of it.
The
killer whale’s heart weighs one hundred kilos
but
in other respects it is light.
There
is nothing more animal-like
than
a clear conscience
on
the third planet of the Sun.
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