Quotes with egoism

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• Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

  Charles de Gaulle
  French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
  

  William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• The divine egoism hat is genius.

  Mary Webb
  English novelist and poet
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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

  George Meredith
  British Author (1828 - 1909)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• fainthearted
• insufferable
• philosophy
• enthusiasm
• historical
• touchstone

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