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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
Sally Kempton

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

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell

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

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

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