Self-love (n.) increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them... and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
Self-love (n.) makes it harder for our tastes to be condemned than our opinions.
Self-love (n.) is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
Self-love (n.) is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Self-love (n.) is the greatest of flatterers.