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Often appears with: self-love · pleasure, pain, and the good life · performance and good mien · gratitude and ingratitude · friendship and loyalty · cultural preference
Usually: speech or oration (1) · temptation (1) · detachment (1) · irony (1)
Folly insists that peace with oneself is the condition for loving others, arguing that self-love is necessary for grace in art and daily life, and that people prefer their own way over change.
nor one companion another, unless all of them had their interchangeable failings, one while flattering, other while prudently conniving, and generally sweetening one another with some small relish of folly. And now you'd think I had said all, but you shall hear yet greater things. Will he, I pray, love anyone that hates himself? Or ever agree with another who is not at peace with himself? Or beget pleasure in anothe…