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self love
«Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.»
«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Self-love
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condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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natural order, Natural right, ordered, self love, well-ordered
«Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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instrument, preservation, self-loving, self, self love
«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.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Choice,
Friends,
Friendship
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circumstance, flatters, mistress, self-loving, self love
«Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.»