The miser hates something accidental to himself, but not for that reason does he hate himself: thus a sick man hates his sickness for the very reason that he loves himself.
Now the fact that anyone desires a temporal good inordinately, is due to the fact that he loves himself inordinately; for to wish anyone some good is to love him.
Thus man loves himself, more than he loves his friend: and because he loves himself, his friend is hateful to him, if he oppose him.
Whether one angel loves another with natural love as he loves himself?
Hence it follows that God, in so far as He loves Himself, loves men, and consequently that the love of God towards men and the intellectual love of the mind towards God are one and the same thing.
Consequently no creature's charity can be perfect in this way; the charity of God alone can, whereby He loves Himself.
Hence, by his reasonable mind which holds the first place in him, man, out of charity, loves himself in one way, and his own body in another.
But the king repeated, musingly and darkly--"Can a king love any one better than he loves himself?
The king was frowning mightily and saying to himself, "Can a king love any one better than he loves himself?
Love thy neighbour as thyself," we are told, the presupposition being that each man loves himself; and it is not said "Love thyself.
Hence it follows that God, in so far as He loves Himself, loves men, and consequently that the love of the mind towards God are one and the same thing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loves himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
