...knowing qualities. ~ Shantideva, 7th C. ~ The Way of the Boddhisattva, Padmakara, tr., 1997 I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. ~ Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592 ~ Self-love, my liege, is not so vile...