We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
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.
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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.
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.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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.
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