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But respect yourself most of all. - Unattributed Author, Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage. - Honore de Balzac The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. - Honore de Balzac You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha (Gautama Buddha) Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius. - Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XV) He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Adam Bede (ch. XXXIII) He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. [Ger., Wer sich nicht zu viel dunkt ist viel mehr als er glaubt.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III) A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. - William Hazlitt (1), Table Talk--On the Look of a Gentleman Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 3) Behold the fine appointment he makes with me; that man never did love any one but himself. [Fr., Voyez le beau rendez-vous qu'il me donne; cet homme la n'a jamais aime que lui-meme.] - Mme. Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon, when Louis XIV, in dying said, "Nous nous renverrons bientot" Ofttimes nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 571) Egoism is hateful. [Fr., Le moi est haissable.] - Blaise Pascal, Pensees Diverses To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 11) Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble. [Fr., Sans doute Je peux apprendre a coqueriquer: je glougloute.] - Edmond Rostand, Chanticleer (act I, sc. 2) And sounding in advance its victory, My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory, That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling, Obeys me. [Fr., Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire, Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement, M'obeit.] - Edmond Rostand, Chanticleer (act II, sc. 3) I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise. [Fr., Je recule Ebloui de me voir moi meme tout vermeil Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait elever le soleil.] - Edmond Rostand, Chanticleer (act II, sc. 3) O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, iii) Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Dauphin at II, iv) I to myself am dearer than a friend, For love is still most precious in itself, And Sylvia--witness heaven that made her fair!-- Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, vi) I am the most concerned in my own interests. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Andria (IV, 1) Offended self-love never forgives. [Fr., L'amour-propre offense ne pardonne jamais.] - Jean Baptiste Etienne Vigee, Les Aveux Difficiles (VII) 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 (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Philosophical Dictionary--Self-Love To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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