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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. — Buddha

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. — Anonymous

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. — Henry Ward Beecher

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons. — Ryan Gosling

The most altruistic man is the most selfish. — Abraham Lincoln

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed ... — Jane Austen

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. — Swami Vivekananda

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. — Henry Ford

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH

(Name of chapter) — William J. Federer

Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures. — Charles Dickens

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. — Richard Whately

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself. — Sherman Alexie

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless, and alone. — Charles Dickens

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being. — James Madison

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish. — David Gemmell

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. — Lewis Black

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite. — Samuel Freeman Miller

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man. — Norma McCorvey

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have. — Susan Wiggs

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. — Michael Fox

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A selfish man is a thief. — Jose Marti

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. — Theodor Reik

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. — George Bernard Shaw

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. — Berthold Auerbach

She wasn't a tragic widow, after all, just another woman betrayed by a selfish man. It was a smaller, more familiar role, and a lot easier to play. — Tom Perrotta

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — Zora Neale Hurston

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. — Benjamin Butler

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed. — Nancy Farmer

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God. — Criss Jami

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. — Annie Besant

I can't stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I've ever played golf with. — Stewart Rahr

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers. — Eleanor Catton

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end. — Sabine Baring-Gould

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. — Herbert Spencer