“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.
Maxim 2.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.”
The Essential Epicurus : Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O'Connor, p. 99
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