He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained read more

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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.

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.

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.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

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.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,