He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
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.
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.
Our first and last love is self-love.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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.
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
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