Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.

In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.

In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.