by
Slavoj Žižek
An evil person is thus not an egotist, ‘thinking only about his own interests’. A true egotist is too busy taking care of his own good to have time to cause misfortune to others. The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than with himself. [...]
drawing on Rousseau's distinction between amour-de-soi (good) and amour-propre (bad; engenders envy and schadenfreude)