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)

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

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