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«Our first and last love is... self-love.»
«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Self-love
| Keywords:
condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.»
«Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
instrument, preservation, self-loving, self, self love
«We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Choice,
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
circumstance, flatters, mistress, self-loving, self love
«Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
draws, self-loving, self love, thick, thickest, thick with, veil
«A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
desires, low, parent, repeat, self-loving, self love
«Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Self-love,
Sin
| Keywords:
Liege, neglecting, self-loving, self love, vile, viler, vilest
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