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"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
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"Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you."
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"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
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"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
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"One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion)."
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"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
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"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
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"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
People
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
People
"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."
Art
"There is no wealth but life."
Life
"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
Education
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
Painting
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
Strength
"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
Being
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