If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.