Abhor and shun those who feel the utmost degree of self-love, while governing their state in a spirit inimical and hostile to the world at large. Isocrates. Panathenaicus. Speech 12. Section 48.
Image: Narcissus by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 1594-1596 in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome, Italy. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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