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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.[1]
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Whatever discoveries may have been made in the territory of self-love, there still remain in it many unknown tracts.
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Self-love is more artful than the most artful man in the world.
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The duration of our passions no more depends on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
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Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
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Those great and brilliant actions which daz-
- ↑ "It hath been well said that the arch flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."—Bacon, Essay 10.
