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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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