Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Self Love

Quotes about: Self Love

• Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Spring, Self

• What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Tire, Self Love

• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

• Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Self

• 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

  Love, Friendship, Business

• We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Feel Good, Proportion

• Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Judging

• The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophical, Self, Color

• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

• The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Secret, Half

• Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Doe, Born

• Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Self, Self Love

• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Self, Judging

• Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Observation, One Time

• Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Kind

• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

• Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Self Love

• Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Traffic

• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

• Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vices, Virtue

• Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Bears, Taste

• Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Discovery, Self, Land

• The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Education, Self, People

• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Office

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 83, 1678.

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