SELF-LOVE
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Wer sich nicht zu viel dünkt ist viel mehr als er glaubt.
He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Voyez le beau rendez-vous qu'il me donne;
cet homme là n'a jamais aimé que lui-même.
Behold the fine appointment he makes with me; that man never did love any one but himself.
Ofttimes nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag'd.
Le moi est haïssable.
Egoism is hateful.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
But respect yourself most of all.
Sans doute
Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.
Rostand—Chanticleer. Act I. Sc. 2
Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire,
Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier. si peremptoire,
Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement,
M'obéit.
And sounding in advance its victory,
My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory.
That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling,
Obeys me.
Rostand—Chanticleer. Act II. Sc. 3.
Je recule
Ébloui de me voir moi même tout vermeil
Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,
At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.
Rostand—Chanticleer. Act II. Sc. 3.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself.
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 23.
I am the most concerned in my own interests.
Terence—Andria. IV. 1.
L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais.
Offended self-love never forgives.
Vizée—Les Aveux Difficiles. VII.
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—Philosophical Dictionary. Self-Love.
SENSE; SENSES
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take
care of themselves.
Lewis Carroll—Alice in Wonderland. Ch. IX.
He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense ... he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.
