I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

Self-analysis always cheats.

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

I create my social existence by earning and spending.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.