self-love Quotes

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?