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1. ""Me", "Myself" and "Mine" - Holy Trinity of selfishness."

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2. "To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

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Quotations about: Human -:- Youth and Age

3. "Some people live as if Copernicus did not exist - they think that everything revolves around them. "

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Quotations about: Human

4. "I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."

W. C. Fields

Quotations about: Good and Evil

5. "An optimist can always see the bright side of the other guy's problems."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

6. "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

7. "Most of life's shadows result from standing in your own light."

Anon.

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

Frank Buchman, "Remaking the World"

Quotations about: Justice -:- Richness and Money

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

Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

11. "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"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

12. "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

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Memory

13. "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"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

Titus Maccius Plautus, "The Comedy of Asses"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Baruch Spinoza

Quotations about: Human -:- Oration and Silence

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Pierre Corneille, "Titus and Berenice"

Quotations about: Love

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

Mason Cooley

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Human

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

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Don Juan Manuel

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

Angela Carter, "Wise Children"

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

Sir William Osler, "Science and Immortality"

Quotations about: Human

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

Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

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

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Good and Evil

27. "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"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

28. "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"

Quotations about: Marriage

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

Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

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

Thomas Fuller, "Gnomologia"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Quotations about: Human

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

Spanish proverb

Quotations about: Forgiveness

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

Deborah Tannen

Quotations about: Human

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

Malcolm Forbes

Quotations about: Human

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

Deborah Tannen

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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

George Meredith

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Anon.

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

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Human

43. "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"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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

George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"

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

Will Rogers, "Illiterate Digest"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

46. "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"

Quotations about: Human

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

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Love

48. "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

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

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Love

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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