appear brillant

Goblet: a.o. 8:48 Do not be ostentatious and do not go out of your dwelling in order to be seen and cheered by people of your kind (fellow human beings) and in order to appear brillant before them, because in doing so you take the sageness (intellect) away from people of your kind (fellow human beings) and make them into biddable ones (subservient ones) to you and into zealots (fanatics), ...