Self-love
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us
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
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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