Quotes 541 till 560 of 893.
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Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T -
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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