Respect yourself, maintain your personal dignity, and don't allow others to insult and discriminate. People with self-esteem can actively fulfill their obligations to society and others, be aboveboard in dealing with others, and have a strong sense of responsibility for their work; In my study, I can carry forward the spirit of self-consciousness, diligence and assiduousness.

The above is the explanation of self-esteem in Ci Hai. I can't say it is wrong, but I think it is one-sided. People who actively fulfill their obligations to society and others obviously have values that are more acceptable to the world. But what if they are extreme and not "normal"?

For example, honest officials don't take bribes, and most of them think that I should not take bribes because I am innocent and upright. Innocence and integrity are self-esteem, but what if we don't think so: money and power are the only useful people, and I want to be a useful person. Being a useful person is also self-esteem. Obviously, the performance of self-esteem is different for people with different values.

For the two kinds of people in the metaphor, self-esteem is the driving force of their behavior. But the behavior is one-on-one wrong, and the problem is that the person who makes the behavior will not think that he has done something wrong.

So, I think, dirty self-esteem is dirty. At some point, people will do something that harms the interests of others, even others, and will not fix it afterwards, because he thinks he is right, and even thinks that he will lose face-no self-esteem after fixing it. There are actually many such examples, such as the second generation of the rich second generation, which is very fierce now. LZ can think for himself.

Of course, I'm not familiar with Marguerite Yourcenar, and I haven't read her books. The above views are just my views, which may have nothing to do with Marguerite Yourcenar's thoughts.