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.
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
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
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
