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A question is also raised as to whether it is right to love one's

Self best, or some one else: because men find fault with those

who love themselves best, and call them in a disparaging way

lovers of Self; and the bad man is thought to do everything he

does for his own sake merely, and the more so the more depraved

he is; accordingly men reproach him with never doing anything

unselfish: whereas the good man acts from a sense of honour (and

the more so the better man he is), and for his friend's sake, and

is careless of his own interest.