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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

— Lord Byron

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

— Gordon W. Allport

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

— Voltaire

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

— Victor Hugo

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.

— Joseph Butler

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.

— Geoff Mulgan

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

— Oscar Wilde

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

— Pierre Corneille

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

— Thomas Traherne

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Joseph Butler