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To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 11) Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. - Jane Porter The world is governed by love,--self-love. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol 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) Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor. - William Shakespeare Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon. - William Shakespeare 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) Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii) 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) Our self-love is ever ready to revolt from our better judgment, and join the enemy within. - Sir Richard Steele That the principle of self-love (or, in other words, the desire of happiness) is neither an object of approbation nor of blame, is sufficiently obvious. It is inseparable from the nature of man as a rational and a sensitive being. - Dugald Stewart It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. - Jonathan Swift Plato said that of all things in the world we should beware of that folly by which most men please themselves and despise a better judgment. - Jeremy Taylor Of all mankind, each loves himself the best. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) I am the most concerned in my own interests. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Andria (IV, 1) A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues Offended self-love never forgives. [Fr., L'amour-propre offense ne pardonne jamais.] - Jean Baptiste Etienne Vigee, Les Aveux Difficiles (VII) In all time self-love has blinded the wisest. - Villefre 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) Those who have affirmed self-love to be the basis of all our sentiments and all our actions are much in the right. There is no occasion to demonstrate that men have a face; as little need is there of proving to them, that they are actuated by self-love. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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