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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints. - Honore de Balzac Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force. - William Cullen Bryant The virtues are lost in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ. - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. - Pindar We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt For the world is only governed by self-interest. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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