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The people who were present at this noble contest increased the intoxication of their new allies by their shouts; and the deputies of the commons, seeing that this memorable night would only afford them profit without honour, consoled their self-love by wondering at what Nobility, grafted upon the Third Estate, could do.
Whenever a brilliant and beautiful woman crossed my path, I attached myself to her train of admirers, until I made her acknowledge my power and give public and unmistakable manifestation of her preference for me; then I left her a target for the laughter of her circle. It was not vanity; oh! no, no! That springs from self-love, and I had none.
When self-love is thus satisfied, remember social virtue is the next duty, and tell your next friend where he may go and obtain the same relief, by the same means. “Trouble not yourselves about the nobility: prosperity has made them vain and insensible: they cannot pity what they cannot feel.
No matter about many of them now, but here are some questions and answers that may be thought worth reading or listening to: "How do you enjoy being what they call 'a celebrity, or a celebrated man? "'So far as one's vanity is concerned it is well enough. But self-love is a cup without any bottom, and you might pour the Great Lakes all through it, and never fill it up.
Self-love approaches the power and exercise very near each other in the latter case; but in order to produce a similar effect in the former, we must suppose a friendship and good-will to be conjoined with the riches.
Captain Hull felt the disappointment of a hunter who, for the first time, returns as he went away or nearly so. His self-love, greatly excited, was at stake, and he did not pardon those scoundrels whose insubordination had compromised the results of his cruise. It was in vain that he endeavored to recruit a new fishing crew at Auckland.
Hartley's analysis of the moral sense is a great advance upon Hobbes and Mandeville, who make self-love the immediate constituent, instead of a remote cause, of conscience. Our moral consciousness may thus be treated as peculiar and distinguishable from other mental states, while at the same time it is denied to be unique and irresolvable.
A rational morality not attainable, but its principle clear. It is the logic of an autonomous will. Socrates' science. Its opposition to sophistry and moral anarchy. Its vitality. Genuine altruism is natural self-expression. Reason expresses impulses, but impulses reduced to harmony. Self-love artificial. The sanction of reason is happiness.
In fact, like many men whose self-love is wounded by their offspring, he felt vindictive, and was ready to sacrifice him up to a certain point, for the good of both. He therefore opened the paper, expecting something worse than what he had hitherto seen, despite its formal heading, and he was not disappointed.
The popularity of the man who had restored the nation's self-love by ending a disastrous war with a dazzling and most unexpected victory, was something different from the respect which we all now feel for the generals distinguished in the late war.
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