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“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
Charles Baudelaire quotes (French Poet of Decadent & Parnassian movements. Wrote poetry collection "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857), 1821-1867)

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“We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
Edward Dahlberg quotes (American Novelist, 1900-1977)

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“Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.”
John Perry Barlow quotes
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“You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism - not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise? Joseph G”

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“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)

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“When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is no”
Rabindranath Tagore quotes (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)

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“My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.”
Gerald R. Ford quotes (American 40th US Vice President under Richard M. Nixon (1973-74) and 38th US President (1974-77). b.1913)

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“The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression”
Felix Frankfurter quotes (American Jurist, 1882-1965)

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