Definition of Self-Love

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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. Related Definitions: Advantage, Benefit, Desire, Happiness, Love, Of, One, Or, Own, Personal, Seek, Self, Tendency, The, To

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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

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

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

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