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Self Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like…
- Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
- It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
- Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
- Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
- We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
- Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
- Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in…
- It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
- The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
- Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
- The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
- In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
- There is more self-love than love in jealousy
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- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
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- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster