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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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"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)."
"Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you."
"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."
"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
"Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. 'There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish.'Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. 'Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so."
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one."
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."
"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"
"None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn."
"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."
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