Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.
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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.