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Quotes about Self-interest

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
- Publilius Syrus
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
- Dale Carnegie
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
- Victor Hugo
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
- William Hazlitt