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Hermann Hesse2 quotes
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse · 1919As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair. — Hermann Hesse · 1927George Santayana1 quote
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. — George Santayana · 1910Hollyhock1 quote
That voice, the one that tells you you're worthless and stupid and ugly…it goes away, right? — Hollyhock · 2017Larry David1 quote
I do hate myself but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. — Larry David · 2001Mark Twain1 quote
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. — Mark Twain · 1897Polybius1 quote
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. — Polybius · 118 BCWilliam Shakespeare1 quote
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting. — William Shakespeare · 1599