Definition of Self-Love

Self-love

The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage.

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Self-Love Quotations

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield

Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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.
Thomas Traherne

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Samuel Richardson

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Joseph Butler

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Joseph Butler

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.
Joseph Butler

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.
Joseph Butler

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
George Byron

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell

Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell

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