Selfishness

(89 votes)   Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(85 votes)   Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(77 votes)   Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(73 votes)   Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.

Katha Upanishad
Ancient Hindu Scripture

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(60 votes)   He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

Source Unknown

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(57 votes)   Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

Mme. Roland

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(56 votes)   Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Julio Cortazar
1914-1984, Belgian Writer

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(54 votes)   How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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(52 votes)   If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

Mike Willesee

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(52 votes)   Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(47 votes)   He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

Source Unknown

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(46 votes)   In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Malcolm Muggeridge
1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(41 votes)   The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Hailliard

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