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Category: Egoism

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1. "There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Frank Buchman, "Remaking the World"

Other categories: Justice -:- Richness and Money

2. "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"

3. "To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

4. "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt, "Complete Works"

Other categories: Pain and Tears

5. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Memory

6. "Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Other categories: Science and Technology

7. "Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."

Titus Maccius Plautus, "The Comedy of Asses"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

8. "What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."

Baruch Spinoza

Other categories: Human -:- Oration and Silence

9. "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Henry Louis Mencken

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

10. "Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."

Mahatma Gandhi

11. "Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

Pierre Corneille, "Titus and Berenice"

Other categories: Love

12. "Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends."

Mason Cooley

13. "I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: Human

14. "All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

15. "He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."

Don Juan Manuel

16. "Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

Angela Carter, "Wise Children"

17. "The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

Sir William Osler, "Science and Immortality"

Other categories: Human

18. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

Other categories: Forgiveness

19. "Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer’s Notebook"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Good and Evil

20. "A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

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21. "Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Other categories: Marriage

22. "Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."

Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Other categories: Forgiveness

23. "He that plants trees loves others beside himself."

Thomas Fuller, "Gnomologia"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

24. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Benjamin Disraeli

25. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Benjamin Franklin

26. "Altruism is the mark of a superior being."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Other categories: Human

27. "If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."

Spanish proverb

Other categories: Forgiveness

28. "We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."

Deborah Tannen

Other categories: Human

29. "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

Malcolm Forbes

Other categories: Human

30. "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."

Deborah Tannen

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

31. "What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature."

George Meredith

Other categories: Woman and Man

32. "All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."

Ashleigh Brilliant

33. "The majority is never right, unless it includes me."

Ashleigh Brilliant

34. "Some people take too much of vitamin "I"."

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35. "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour."

Eric Hoffer

Other categories: Human

36. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hermann Hesse, "Demian"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

37. "Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."

George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"

38. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Will Rogers, "Illiterate Digest"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

39. "We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven."

Albert Camus, "The Fall"

Other categories: Human

40. "Living with egoist is commiting suicide for the love."

Lidia Jasinska

Other categories: Love

41. "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

Albert Schweitzer

42. "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

Oscar Wilde

Other categories: Love

43. "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

44. "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde

45. "Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

François de La Rochefoucauld

46. "Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

47. "There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Oscar Wilde

48. "In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Other categories: Envy

49. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Lev Tolstoy

50. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Nature and Animals

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