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** [[Blaise Pascal]], Pensées Diverses. |
** [[Blaise Pascal]], Pensées Diverses. |
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To observations which ourselves we make, |
To observations which ourselves we make,<br>We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. |
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We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. |
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** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Moral Essays'' (1731-35), Epistle I, line 11. |
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Moral Essays'' (1731-35), Epistle I, line 11. |
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** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act I, scene 2. |
** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act I, scene 2. |
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Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire, |
Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire,<br>Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire,<br>Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement,<br>M'obéit. |
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Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire, |
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Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement, |
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M'obéit. |
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And sounding in advance its victory, |
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Obeys me. |
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** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3. |
** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3. |
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Ébloui de me voir moi même tout vermeil |
Ébloui de me voir moi même tout vermeil |
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Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil. |
Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil. |
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I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, |
I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,<br> At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise. |
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At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise. |
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** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3. |
** Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3. |
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Revision as of 01:58, 16 June 2011
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. .
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.
- Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Chapter XV.
- He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter XXXIII.
- 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.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
- 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.
- William Hazlitt, Table Talk, On the Look of a Gentleman.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 3.
- 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.
- Mme. de Maintenon, when Louis XIV. in dying said, "Nous nous renverrons bientôt." (We shall meet again).
- Ofttimes nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 571.
Le moi est haïssable.
Egoism is hateful.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées Diverses.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle I, line 11.
But respect yourself most of all.
- Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans.
- * Sans doute
Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
- Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.
- Rostand—Chanticleer, Act I, scene 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, scene 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, scene 3.
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act II, scene 4, line 74.
- 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.
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 312.
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 6, line 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.