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		<title>Montaigne, Michel de -- Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), &#8220;Of Presumption [De la Presomption]&#8221; (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is another kind of &#8220;glory&#8221;: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is another kind of &#8220;glory&#8221;: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it &#8212; with their judgment blurred and altered &#8212; find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.</p>
<p><em>[Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, &#038; des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; &#038; fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble &#038; alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre &#038; plus parfait qu’il n’est.]</em></p>
<br><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> (1533-1592) French essayist<br><i>Essays</i>, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), &#8220;Of Presumption <i>[De la Presomption]</i>&#8221; (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Montaigne_Selected_Essays/zctgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22there%20is%20another%20kind%22%20conceiving" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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This essay and passage were in the 1st (1580) edition.<br><br>

(<a href="https://hyperessays.net/gournay/book/II/chapter/17/#:~:text=Il%20y%20a,parfait%20qu%E2%80%99il%20n%E2%80%99est.">Source (French)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br> 

<blockquote>There is another kinde of glorie, which is an over-good opinion we conceive of our worth. It is an inconsiderate affection, wherewith wee cherish our selves, which presents-us unto our selves other then wee are. As an amorous passion addeth beauties, and lendeth graces to the subject it embraceth, and maketh such as are therewith possessed, with a troubled conceite, and distracted Judgement, to deeme what they love, and finde what they affect, to bee other, and seeme more perfect, then in trueth it is. 
[tr. <a href="https://hyperessays.net/florio/book/II/chapter/17/#:~:text=There%20is%20another,trueth%20it%20is.">Florio</a> (1603)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another sort of glory, which is the having too good an opinion of our own merit. It is an inconsiderate affection, with which we flatter ourselves, and that represents us to ourselves other than what we truly are: like the passion of love, that lends beauties and graces to the object of it; and makes those who are caught with it, by a depraved and corrupt judgment, consider the thing they love other and more perfect than it is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essaysmichaelde00montgoog/page/322/mode/2up?q=%22another+sort+of+glory%22">Cotton</a> (1686)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another sort of glory, which is the having too good an opinion of our own worth. ’Tis an inconsiderate affection with which we flatter ourselves, and that represents us to ourselves other than we truly are: like the passion of love, that lends beauties and graces to the object, and makes those who are caught by it, with a depraved and corrupt judgment, consider the thing which they love other and more perfect than it is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://hyperessays.net/essays/on-presumption/#:~:text=There%20is%20another,than%20it%20is.">Cotton/Hazlitt</a> (1877)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another sort of glory, which is a too high opinion that we conceive of our worth. It is an ill-advised affection with which we flatter ourselves, which represents us to ourselves other than we are; as amourous passion lends beauties and charms to that which it embraces, and causes those who are possessed by it, their judgement being disturbed and diverted, to deem what they love different from what it is, and more perfect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essays_of_Montaigne/Ht7QAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22another%20sort%20of%20glory%22">Ives</a> (1925)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another sort of glory, which is to have too good an opinion of our own worth. It is an unthinking affection with which we flatter ourselves, that represents us to ourselves other than we truly are: like the passion of love, that lends beauties and charms to the object it embraces, and makes those who are possessed by it, with a troubled and corrupt judgment, consider the thing they love other and more perfect than it is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essays_of_Michel_de_Montaigne/cncGAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22another%20sort%20of%20glory%22">Zeitlin</a> (1934)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another kind of vainglory, which is an over-good opinion we form of our own worth. It is an unreasoning affection, by which we cherish ourselves, which represents us to ourselves as other than we are; as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces, and makes its victims, with muddled and unsettled judgment, think that what they love is other and more perfect than it is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeworksofm0000mont/page/478/mode/2up?q=%22kind+of+vainglory%22">Frame</a> (1943)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another kind of glory, which is to have too good an opinion of our own worth. It is an unthinking affection with which we flatter ourselves, and which presents us to ourselves as other than we are; just as the passion of love lends beauties and charms to the object it embraces in such a way that the love's judgement is troubled and distracted, and he finds the lady he loves other and more perfect than she is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140178975/page/190/mode/2up?q=%22is+another+kind+of%22">Cohen</a> (1958)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is another kind of "glory": the over-high opinion we conceive of our own worth. It is an imprudent affection by which we hold our own self dear, presenting ourself to ourself other than we are, just as passionate love lends grace and beauty to the person it embraces and leads to those who are enraptured by it being disturbed and confused in their judgement, so finding their Beloved other than she is, and more perfect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-complete-essays-montaigne-michel-de-1533-1592/page/717/mode/2up?q=%22there+is+another+kind%22">Screech</a> (1987)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch.  8 &#8220;Persecution Mania&#8221; (1930)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We expect everybody else to feel towards us that tender love and that profound respect which we feel towards ourselves.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We expect everybody else to feel towards us that tender love and that profound respect which we feel towards ourselves.</p>
<br><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br><i>Conquest of Happiness</i>, Part 1, ch.  8 &#8220;Persecution Mania&#8221; (1930) 
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		<title>Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2073 (1727)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be not deceived: it is not that which Men believe of thee will make thee happy or miserable; but that which thou believest of thyself.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be not deceived: it is not that which Men believe of thee will make thee happy or miserable; but that which thou believest of thyself.</p>
<br><b>Thomas Fuller</b> (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer<br><i>Introductio ad Prudentiam</i>, Vol. 2, # 2073 (1727) 
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		<title>Moliere -- Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L&#8217;Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit So blinds them that they&#8217;re never hard to cheat. [Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime. Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.] When her maid is concerned that Tartuffe will see through Elmire&#8217;s stratagem. (Source (French)). Alternate translations: No, People are easily Dup&#8217;d by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit<br />
So blinds them that they&#8217;re never hard to cheat.</p>
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<p><em>[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.<br />
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]</em></p>
<br><b>Molière</b> (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]<br><i>Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L&#8217;Imposteur]</i>, Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/misanthropetartu00moli/page/280/mode/2up?q=%22amorous+men%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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When her maid is concerned that Tartuffe will see through Elmire's stratagem.<br><br>

(<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Tartuffe_ou_l%E2%80%99Imposteur/%C3%89dition_Chasles,_1888#:~:text=Non%C2%A0%3B%20on%20est%20ais%C3%A9ment%20dup%C3%A9%20par%20ce%20qu%E2%80%99on%20aime.%0AEt%20l%E2%80%99amour%2Dpropre%20engage%20%C3%A0%20se%20tromper%20soi%2Dm%C3%AAme.">Source (French)</a>).  Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>No, People are easily Dup'd by what they love, and Self-love helps 'em to deceive themselves.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Moliere/6GEzAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22no%20people%20are%22">Clitandre</a> (1672)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No; people are easily duped by those whom they love, and conceit is apt to deceive itself.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dramatic_Works_of_Moli%C3%A8re_M%C3%A9licert/vdFMAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22easily%20duped%22">Van Laun</a> (1876)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No, we are easily duped by those we love, and we deceive ourselves through our own conceit.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dramatic_Works_of_Moli%C3%A8re_The_force/9KRiy5RyJ-cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA322&printsec=frontcover">Wall</a> (1879)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No, people are easily duped by what they like; and self-love helps them to deceive themselves.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/comedies00molirich/page/466/mode/2up?q=%22easily+duped%22">Mathew</a> (1890), 4.2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No; people are easily duped by those whom they love. Self-love leads the way to self-deceit.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Plays_of_Moli%C3%A8re_in_French/ry1zVvUyoCgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22easily%20duped%22">Waller</a> (1903)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Oh no! A lover's never hard to cheat,<br>
And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tartuffe_or_the_Hypocrite#:~:text=A%20lover%27s%20never%20hard%20to%20cheat%2C%0AAnd%20self%2Dconceit%20leads%20straight%20to%20self%2Ddeceit.">Page</a> (1909)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No, one is easily fooled by one's belovèd,<br>
And self-conceit will end in self-deception.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/eightplaysbymoli00moli/page/200/mode/2up?q=%22one+is+easily+fooled%22">Bishop</a> (1957)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Oh, no! A lover is not hard to cheat,<br>
And self-deception springs from self-conceit.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/tartuffeotherpla0000moli_t9a5/page/304/mode/2up?q=%22lover+is+not%22">Frame</a> (1967)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He loves me, and he's also vain,<br>
That double drug will dull his brain.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tartuffe/B4oHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22elmire%20oh%20yes%22">Bolt</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>No, it's easy to be fooled by what we want; our vanity is always ready to betray us.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/tartuffeandmisan0000moli/page/86/mode/2up?q=%22fooled+by+what%22">Steiner</a> (2008)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We long to be fooled by the one we love,<br>
And pride lends a hand in its own downfall.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tartuffe/HZ78DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22elmire%20we%20long%22">Campbell</a> (2013)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Billings, Josh -- Everybody&#8217;s Friend, Or; Josh Billing&#8217;s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 &#8220;Variety: Bred and Butter&#8221; (1874)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He who don&#8217;t luv himself vents hiz spleen bi hating everyboddy else. [He who doesn&#8217;t love himself vents his spleen by hating everybody else.]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He who don&#8217;t luv himself vents hiz spleen bi hating everyboddy else.</p>
<p>[He who doesn&#8217;t love himself vents his spleen by hating everybody else.]</p>
<br><b>Josh Billings</b> (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]<br><i>Everybody&#8217;s Friend, Or; Josh Billing&#8217;s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor</i>, ch. 281 &#8220;Variety: Bred and Butter&#8221; (1874) 
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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1739 ed.)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He that falls in love with himself, will have no Rivals.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard</i> (1739 ed.) 
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		<title>Chamfort, Nicolas -- Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 &#8220;Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],&#8221; ch.  5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principle underlying every society is justice, for yourself and for others. If you are to love your neighbour as yourself, neighbour as yourself, it&#8217;s only fair to love yourself as much as you love your neighbour. [Le principe de toute société est de se rendre justice à soi-même et aux autres. Si l’on doit [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The principle underlying every society is justice, for yourself and for others. If you are to love your neighbour as yourself, neighbour as yourself, it&#8217;s only fair to love yourself as much as you love your neighbour.</p>
<p><em>[Le principe de toute société est de se rendre justice à soi-même et aux autres. Si l’on doit aimer son prochain comme soi-même, il est au moins aussi juste de s’aimer comme son prochain.]</em></p>
<br><b>Nicolas Chamfort</b> (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)<br><i>Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée]</i>, Part 1 &#8220;Maxims and Thoughts <i>[Maximes et Pensées],&#8221;</i> ch.  5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chamfort/0K0aAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22education%20must%20be%20based%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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See <a href="/bible-nt/10341/">Matthew</a>. (<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Maximes_et_Pens%C3%A9es_(Chamfort)/%C3%89dition_Bever/5#:~:text=Le%20principe%20de%20toute%20soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20est%20de%20se%20rendre%20justice%20%C3%A0%20soi%2Dm%C3%AAme%20et%20aux%20autres.%20Si%20l%E2%80%99on%20doit%20aimer%20son%20prochain%20comme%20soi%2Dm%C3%AAme%2C%20il%20est%20au%20moins%20aussi%20juste%20de%20s%E2%80%99aimer%20comme%20son%20prochain.">Source (French)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>The one great social principle is to be just both to yourself and to others. If you must love your neighbour as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69632/pg69632-images.html#:~:text=The%20one%20great,as%20your%20neighbour.">Hutchinson</a> (1902)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Justice to oneself and to others is the first principle of all Society; and if we should love our neighbour as ourself, it is quite as just that we should love ourself as much as our neighbour.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsconsiderat0002unse/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22justice+to+oneself%22">Mathers</a> (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The principle of all society is to do justice to oneself and to others. If one should love one’s neighbor as oneself, it is at least equally just to love oneself as one does one’s neighbor.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/productsofperfec0000seba_s1c9/page/164/mode/2up?q=%22principle+of+all%22">Merwin</a> (1969)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The principle of all society is to do justice to oneself and to others. If it is right to love the person next to us as ourselves, it is at least as right to love ourselves as much as the people next to us.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://frenchphilosophes.weebly.com/chamfort.html#:~:text=The%20principle%20of%20all%20society%20is%20to%20do%20justice%20to%20oneself%20and%20to%20others.%20If%20it%20is%20right%20to%20love%20the%20person%20next%20to%20us%20as%20ourselves%2C%20it%20is%20at%20least%20as%20right%20to%20love%20ourselves%20as%20much%20as%20the%20people%20next%20to%20us.">Siniscalchi</a> (1994)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Rogers, Will -- Column (1929-03-01), &#8220;Daily Telegram&#8221;</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No man is great if he thinks he is.</p>
<br><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1929-03-01), &#8220;Daily Telegram&#8221; 
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		<title>Levine, Emily -- &#8220;A Theory of Everything,&#8221; TED Talk, Monterey, California (Feb 2002)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.</p>
<br><b>Emily Levine</b> (1944-2019) American humorist, writer, actress, speaker <br>&#8220;A Theory of Everything,&#8221; TED Talk, Monterey, California (Feb 2002) 
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		<title>Bellow, Saul -- &#8220;Ralph Ellison in Tivoli&#8221; (1998)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom &#8212; which is bordered on all sides [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom &#8212; which is bordered on all sides by isolation &#8212; is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life&#8217;s banquet.</p>
<br><b>Saul Bellow</b> (1915-2005) Canadian-American writer<br>&#8220;Ralph Ellison in Tivoli&#8221; (1998) 
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Originally <a href="https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/30725915208_3.jpg">printed</a> in <i>News from the Republic of Letters</i>, No. 3 (1998). <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-10-bk-48197-story.html#:~:text=I%20have%20begun,at%20life%E2%80%99s%20banquet.">Reprinted</a> in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> (10 May 1998).


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		<title>Marcus Aurelius -- Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch.  4 (12.4) (AD 161-180) [tr. Haines (Loeb) (1916)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else. [Πολλάκις ἐθαύμασα πῶς ἑαυτὸν μὲν ἕκαστος μᾶλλον πάντων φιλεῖ, τὴν δὲ ἑαυτοῦ περὶ αὑτοῦ ὑπόληψιν ἐν ἐλάττονι λόγῳ τίθεται ἢ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων.] (Source (Greek)). [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else. </p>
<p>[Πολλάκις ἐθαύμασα πῶς ἑαυτὸν μὲν ἕκαστος μᾶλλον πάντων φιλεῖ, τὴν δὲ ἑαυτοῦ περὶ αὑτοῦ ὑπόληψιν ἐν ἐλάττονι λόγῳ τίθεται ἢ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων.]</p>
<br><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν]</i>, Book 12, ch.  4 (12.4) (AD 161-180) [tr. Haines (Loeb) (1916)] 
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0641%3Abook%3D12%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D1#:~:text=%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%82%20%E1%BC%90%CE%B8%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B1%20%CF%80%E1%BF%B6%CF%82%20%E1%BC%91%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%E1%BD%B8%CE%BD%20%CE%BC%E1%BD%B2%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%95%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CE%BC%E1%BE%B6%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD%20%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%2C%20%CF%84%E1%BD%B4%CE%BD%20%CE%B4%E1%BD%B2%20%E1%BC%91%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%20%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%E1%BD%B6%20%CE%B1%E1%BD%91%CF%84%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%20%E1%BD%91%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%88%CE%B9%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BB%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B9%20%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%E1%BF%B3%20%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%20%E1%BC%A2%20%CF%84%E1%BD%B4%CE%BD%20%CF%84%E1%BF%B6%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%84%CE%BB%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BD.">Source (Greek)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus_-_His_Meditations_concerning_himselfe#THE_TWELFTH_BOOK:~:text=I%20have%20often%20wondered%20how%20it%20should%20come%20to%20pass%2C%20that%20every%20man%20loving%20himself%20best%2C%20should%20more%20regard%20other%20men%27s%20opinions%20concerning%20himself%20than%20his%20own.">Casaubon</a> (1634), 12.3]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wonder'd how it comes to pass, that every Body should love themselves best, and yet value their Neighbours Opinion about themselves, more than their own. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Marcus_Antoninus:_His_Conversation_with_Himself/Book_12#:~:text=I%20have%20often%20wonder%27d%20how%20it%20comes%20to%20pass%2C%20that%20every%20Body%20should%20love%20themselves%20best%2C%20and%20yet%20value%20their%20Neighbours%20Opinion%20about%20themselves%20%2C%20more%20than%20their%20own.">Collier</a> (1701)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered how each man should love himself more than any other; and yet make less account of his own opinion concerning himself, than of the opinions of others.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/457829267955022580052/page/n177/mode/2up?q=%22make+less+account%22">Hutcheson/Moor</a> (1742)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered, whence it comes to pass, that although every one loves himself more than he does any other man, he should yet pay a greater regard to the opinion of other people concerning him than to his own.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_meditations_of_Marcus_Aurelius_Anton/3uQIAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22pay%20a%20greater%20regard%22">Graves</a> (1792)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Thoughts_of_the_Emperor_Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus/Book_XII#:~:text=I%20have%20often%20wondered%20how%20it%20is%20that%20every%20man%20loves%20himself%20more%20than%20all%20the%20rest%20of%20men%2C%20but%20yet%20sets%20less%20value%20on%20his%20own%20opinion%20of%20himself%20than%20on%20the%20opinion%20of%20others.">Long</a> (1862)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered how it comes to pass that everybody should love themselves best, and yet value their neighbor's opinion about themselves more than their own.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Meditations_of_Marcus_Aurelius/5qcAEZZibB0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22and%20yet%20value%20their%22">Collier/Zimmern</a> (1887)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>How strange it is, that every one loves himself above all others, yet attaches less weight to his own view of himself, than to that of other men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus_to_Himself/0X2BxfXnXKcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA178&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22attaches%20less%20weight%22">Rendall</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have wondered often how it comes that, while every man loves himself beyond all others, yet he holds his own opinion of himself in less esteem than the opinion of others.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55317/pg55317-images.html#:~:text=I%20have%20wondered%20often%20how%20it%20comes%20that%2C%20while%20every%20man%20loves%20himself%20beyond%20all%20others%2C%20yet%20he%20holds%20his%20own%20opinion%20of%20himself%20in%20less%20esteem%20than%20the%20opinion%20of%20others.">Hutcheson/Chrystal</a> (1902)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I often wonder how it is that every one loves himself more than all the world and yet takes less account of his own judgement of himself than of the judgement of the world.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Meditations_of_the_Emperor_Marcus_Antoninus/Book_12#:~:text=I%20often%20wonder%20how%20it%20is%20that%20every%20one%20loves%20himself%20more%20than%20all%20the%20world%20and%20yet%20takes%20less%20account%20of%20his%20own%20judgement%20of%20himself%20than%20of%20the%20judgement%20of%20the%20world.">Farquharson</a> (1944)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Meditations/WV7Teosv0bIC?gbpv=1&bsq=%22i%20often%20marvel%22">Staniforth</a> (1964)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often marvelled at how everyone loves himself above all others, yet places less value on his own opinion of himself than that of everyone else.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Meditations/VVsmU-4YwFsC?gbpv=1&bsq=%2212.4%22">Hard</a> (1997 ed.); <a href="https://archive.org/details/meditations0000marc_m5f0/page/114/mode/2up?q=%22i+have+often+marvelled%22">Hard</a> (2011 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/meditation-GeorgeHays/page/n265/mode/2up?q=%22never+ceases+to+amaze%22">Hays</a> (2003)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often wondered how it is that everyone loves himself more than anyone else, but rates his own judgement of himself below that of others. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/marcus-aurelius-emperor-of-rome-martin-hammond-diskin-clay-meditations/page/115/mode/2up?q=%22i+have+often+wondered%22">Hammond</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I have often been amazed at how every person loves himself more than he loves others yet places less value on his own judgment of himself than of the judgments of others concerning him.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialmarcusa0000marc/page/90/mode/2up?q=%22often+been+amazed%22">Needleman/Piazza</a> (2008)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>How is it that every person loves themselves more than any other person, yet still gives more value to the opinions of others than the opinion they hold of themselves? <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Meditations_by_Marcus_Aurelius/brOkDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=marcus%20aurelius%20meditations&pg=PT101&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22how%20is%20it%20that%22">McNeill</a> (2019)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Brown, Rita Mae -- Venus Envy, ch. 15 (1993)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you but yourself. Often paraphrased in the present tense: &#8220;The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.&#8221;]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you but yourself.</p>
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<br><b>Rita Mae Brown</b> (b. 1944) American author, playwright<br><i>Venus Envy</i>, ch. 15 (1993) 
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Often paraphrased in the present tense: "The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."						</span>
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		<title>Taylor, Henry -- Notes from Life, &#8220;Wisdom&#8221; (1847)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love &#8230;.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love &#8230;.</p>
<br><b>Henry Taylor</b> (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters<br><i>Notes from Life</i>, &#8220;Wisdom&#8221; (1847) 
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		<title>Hillel -- Talmud, Mishnah, &#8220;Pirkay Avot [Chapters of the Fathers],&#8221; Aboth 1:14 [tr. Rosten (1972)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now &#8212; when?]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now &#8212; when?</p>
<br><b>Hillel</b> (1st C. BC-1st C. AD) Jewish sage, rabbi [הלל]<br><i>Talmud</i>, Mishnah, &#8220;Pirkay Avot [Chapters of the Fathers],&#8221; Aboth 1:14 [tr. Rosten (1972)] 
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		<title>Richardson, James -- Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays, # 64 (2001)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself. See Matthew 22:36-40.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.</p>
<br><b>James Richardson</b> (b. 1950) American poet<br><i>Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays</i>, # 64 (2001) 
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See <a href="https://wist.info/bible/10341/">Matthew 22:36-40</a>.						</span>
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		<title>De Stael, Germaine -- Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments [Sophie, ou les sentiments secrets], Act 2, sc. 8 (1790)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. [On cesse de s&#8217;aimer si quelqu&#8217;un ne nous aime.]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.</p>
<p><em>[On cesse de s&#8217;aimer si quelqu&#8217;un ne nous aime.]</em></p>
<br><b>Germaine de Staël</b> (1766-1817) Swiss-French writer, woman of letters, critic, salonist [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, Madame de Staël, Madame Necker]<br><i>Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments [Sophie, ou les sentiments secrets]</i>, Act 2, sc. 8 (1790) 
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		<title>Johnson, Samuel -- The Rambler, #155 (10 Sep 1751)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others, and disposes us to resent censures lest we should confess them to be just.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others, and disposes us to resent censures lest we should confess them to be just. </p>
<br><b>Samuel Johnson</b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic<br><i>The Rambler</i>, #155 (10 Sep 1751) 
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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 100 (1955)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab">The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.<br />
<span class="tab">It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.</p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>Passionate State of Mind</i>, Aphorism 100 (1955) 
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		<title>Radner, Gilda -- It&#8217;s Always Something, ch.  9 &#8220;The Wellness Community&#8221; (1989)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die &#8212; whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die &#8212; whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.</p>
<br><b>Gilda Radner</b> (1946-1989) American comedian<br><i>It&#8217;s Always Something</i>, ch.  9 &#8220;The Wellness Community&#8221; (1989) 
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		<title>~Other -- Jane O&#8217;Reilly, Ms., &#8220;View from the Bed&#8221; (Apr 1973)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first great step is to like yourself enough to pick someone who likes you, too.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first great step is to like yourself enough to pick someone who likes you, too.</p>
<br>(Other Authors and Sources)<br>Jane O&#8217;Reilly, <i>Ms.</i>, &#8220;View from the Bed&#8221; (Apr 1973) 
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		<title>Coleridge, Samuel Taylor -- Aids to Reflection (1825)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.</p>
<br><b>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</b> (1772-1834) English poet and critic<br><i>Aids to Reflection</i> (1825) 
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