Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.