The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Self-love 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.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.