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| Selfishness Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The most sublime act is to set another before you. | Blake | William |
| 2 | Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. | Brancusi | Constantin |
| 3 | Let me have my own way exactly in everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. | Carlyle | Thomas |
| 4 | Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of D | Dickens | Charles |
| 5 | How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it | Smith | Adam |
| 6 | Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure. | Austen | Jane |
| 7 | Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good governmen | Mill | John |
| 8 | He who has no thought of ``I and ``mine whatever towards mind and body, he who grieves not for that which he has not, he is, indeed, called a Bhikkhu. | Buddha | |
| 9 | By self do you censure yourself. By self do you examine yourself. Self-guarded and mindful, O Bhikkhu, you will live happily. | Buddha | |
| 10 | Self, indeed, is the protector of self. Self, indeed, is one's refuge. Control, therefore, your own self as a merchant controls a noble steed. | Buddha | |
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