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Selfishness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.— CICERO

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Party Politics. Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung. S.— SCOTT — Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto VI. St. 1.

What need we any spur but our own cause, To prick us to redress? Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 123. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. L. 33.

Rari nantes in gurgite vasto. A few swimming in the vast deep.— VIRGIL — Eneid. I. 118.

Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis. Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.— JUVENAL — Satire. V. 113.

S. Hac re videre nostra mala non possumus; Alii simul delinquunt, censores sumus. Hence we can not see our own faults; when others transgress, we become censors.— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. IV. 10. 4.

Omnes sibi malle melius esse quam alteri. Each one wishes for his own advantage, rather than that of others.— TERENCE — Andria. II. 5. 16.

Chacun chez soi, chacun pour soi. Every one for his home, every one for himself.— M. DUPIN