| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most impo | | François de la Rochefoucauld | | | By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest | | Bertrand Russell | | | | | For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. | | Mark Twain | | | | | The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires | | Edmund Burke | | | We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | | | We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best | | Anatole France | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 8 of 8 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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