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 sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
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.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
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