We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We think 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.
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.
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.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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