“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 - 1830)”
“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”
“Love is not an act based on conditions. Love is the conditions all other acts are based on. Love for our Creator. Love for others. Love for ourselves.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.”
“do we not love each other enough, or do we love ourselves too much!”