Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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.