Strangers to Themselves

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own characters. They think, and reason, and judge quite differently upon any matter relating to themselves, from what they do in cases of others. . . . Hence it is one hears people exposing follies, which they themselves are eminent for; and talking with great severity against particular vices, which if all the world be not mistaken, they themselves are notoriously guilty of.