You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.[Wer nicht geben kann, empfängt auch nichts.]
Unselfishness is a very rare virtue – it doesn’t pay.[Die Selbstlosigkeit ist eine seltene Tugend, weil sie sich nicht rentiert.]
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Selfish – a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.