Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Corinne, or Italy 1807 Book Quotes)

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.[L’amour-propre, si susceptible pour lui-même, ne devine presque jamais la susceptibilité des autres.]

Source:(ed. H. W. Derby, 1861) Book VIII, Chapter I, Page 130
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