SELF-LOVE:
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
(George Eliot [pen name for Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819=1880)
SELF-LOVE:
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
(Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)