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Letter "S" » Selfishness
«It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Emotion,
Mistakes,
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish
«One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.»
«Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more»
Author: Neil Peart
(Drummer)
| About:
Individualism,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
begging, bleeding, bleeding heart, cry out, cry out for
«Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
curse, selfishness
«Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Modesty,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
modesty, pass by, unselfishness
«Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
admits, deluded, deludes, deluding, qualifications, turnings, worshippers
«People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.»
«Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
bequeath, bequeathed, charities, posthumous
«Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself»
«Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
asking, living, selfishness, wishes
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