Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on th…

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.