Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.