Self-love
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
each man is dear to himself · every living creature loves itself
in the texts
Letters
A deeply rooted vice that hinders reconciliation and healing of church divisions.
Self-love, rooted in souls by long habit, one man is unable to remove, nor one letter, nor a brief space of time.
On Moral Ends
The premise, argued at length, that every living creature by nature loves and seeks to preserve itself, used as the starting point for deriving the highest good.
Wherefore let us begin from that which I put first, which is also in very deed first — that we may understand that every living creature loves itself.
Every living creature loves itself, and, as soon as it is born, does this, that it may preserve itself;
And yet how can it be understood or conceived that there is any living creature which hates itself?