How others might have phrased the aphorism:

The confident egotist is very good for himself. --R. Creeley

The regard we have for others is but a disguised form of amour-propre. --LaRochefoucauld

I'll join any club that will appoint me president. --Groucho Marx

I am the least difficult of men; all I want is boundless love. --Frank O'Hara

He wrote a whole book on beauty without mentioning me! --Anonymous