March 5th
Book Three, Chapter 27
That Self-Love Chiefly Keeps Us Back From the Sovereign Good

Know that the love of yourself is more hurtful to you than anything of the world....Your welfare, therefore, lies not in obtaining and multiplying any external things, but rather in contemning them, and utterly rooting them out of your heart; which I would not have you to understand only with regard to money and riches, but also with regard to the ambition of honor, and the desire of empty praise; all which things pass away with the world.