Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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