Selfishness is a prison for the soul. Just as prison robs us of physical freedom, selfishness robs us of happiness. [English] Malory: "Threads"

Among all the immoral behaviors that degrade personality, selfishness is the most hateful and shameful. [English] Thackeray: "Vanity Fair"

Selfishness is our biggest evil today. [French] Balzac: "Donkey Skin"

Selfish people will be like a lonely fruit tree that withers away day by day. [Russian] Turgenev: "On Turgenev"

Individualism is the most abnormal state - it is madness. [Russian] Leo Tolstoy: "The Diary of Mrs. Tolstoy"

All self-interested lives are irrational and animal lives. [Russian] Leo Tolstoy: "The Last Diary"

If a person only thinks about himself, then there will be more sad things in his life than happy things. [Russian] Silibiak: "Privalov's Millions of Possessions"

Living only for the family is the selfishness of an animal; living only for one person is despicable; living only for oneself It's a shame to live. [Soviet] Ostrovsky: "Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters"

There is nothing more wrong with the human heart than selfishness. [Middle] Yang Wanli: "Reply to Chen Guocai's Book"

The only major sin in a person's life is "selfishness". [Middle] Lu Kun: "Moaning Language? Self-cultivation"

People in the world only recognize that the word "I" is too true, so they have many hobbies and worries. [Chinese] Hong Yingming: "Cai Gen Tan"

For a citizen, selfishness is always a bad quality. Such people always distort everything according to their own selfish needs, and the results are always harmful to society. [English] Francis Bacon: "On Life? On Selfishness"

The kind of person who "only knows how to love himself but does not know how to love others" (Cicero's words about Pompey) will never end well in the end. . [English] Francis Bacon: "On Life? On Selfishness"

If a bad habit - a kind of private interest confuses the eyes, things will not be seen clearly, and there will only be a serious heart. Only with the heart can a large number of talents be produced. [French] Flaubert: "Madame Bovary"

There is only one enemy, and that is selfishness that is greedy for pleasure. It is it that sucks up the source of life and disturbs it. [France] Romain Rolland: "Johan Christophe"

The real misfortune is egoism. If a person only loves himself, then when the heavy test of life comes, he will curse his fate and endure terrible pain. [Soviet] Dzerzhinsky: "Prisoner's Diary and Letters"

Self-interested people are the first to perish. [Sunny] Ostrovsky: "Ideal and Happiness"

Egoism itself is unfortunate. It not only harms oneself, but also harms others. In fact, it is precisely because of the existence of this kind of egoism that there is so much misfortune and misery in the world. [Japan] Daisaku Ikeda: "Proverbs for Women"

Private viewing makes the eyes blind, private listening makes the ears deaf, and private worries make the heart crazy. [Middle] "Preface to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals of Ji and Dong Ji"

Those who use selfish means will have their families in chaos, and those who use selfish means will endanger their country. [Middle] "Warring States Policy? Zhao Ce"

The world's affairs are caused by laziness and selfishness. [Middle] Zhu Xi: "Quotations of Zhu Zi"

Never lose to selfishness. [Middle] Zhang Shangying: "Su Shu? Bende Zongdao"

To seize the common interests of the world and pursue one's own private interests is called a traitor to the country. [Middle] Huang Zongxi: "Yuanjun"

If a person is greedy for selfishness, he will turn his hardness into softness, his wisdom into ignorance, his kindness into misery, his purity into filth, and his character will be ruined throughout his life. [Middle] Hong Yingming: "Cai Gen Tan"

If the emperor lavishly accumulates wealth to benefit his descendants, poverty will surely be in the country; if the scholar-bureaucrats lavishly accumulates wealth to benefit his descendants, then he will be defeated at home. [Middle] Wang Fuzhi: "Cuanshan Suicide Note"

If you take it from someone other than the owner, you will never have it, and it is also suitable to kill yourself. [Middle] Ji Yun: "Notes from Yuewei Thatched Cottage"

If everyone is selfish, the world will be in chaos. [Middle] Liu E: "Lao Can's Travels"

All selfish people always start by harming others and end by harming themselves. Those who go against the interests of the masses will never end well. [Chinese] Wu Yuzhang: "Memories from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to 1911 Revolution"

Selfishness is the root of all evil.

[Chinese] Yun Daiying: "Social Services for ***Life"

There are three kinds of egoists in the world: one kind of egoist wants to live and let others live; the other kind of egoist An egoist wants to live but doesn't let others live; the last kind of egoist is one who doesn't want to live but doesn't let others live... [Russian] Turgenev: "Luoting"

Selfishness is the product of ignorance and misunderstanding. [English] Shelley: "Speculations on Moral Concepts"

Selfishness looks at current interests with present consciousness; rationality is far-sighted and sees the future and results. [English] Popper: "On Human Nature"

Excessive humility will produce violence; weakness and concession will produce selfishness. [English] Charlotte Bronte: "Sherry"

It is incomplete selfishness that causes spiritual suffering to oneself and others. People who sacrifice half of their lives for others will always find that others are staring at the half that they did not sacrifice. [English] Saki: "Looking forward to the boiling kettle"

Selfishness is the greatest flattery. [French] Voltaire: "Fragment"

The combination of malice and selfish desire can equal a large amount of ingenuity. [French] Balzac: "The Civil Servant"

The gold in the ground must be dug from the veins, and the gold of the miser must be dug from his soul. [Persia] Saadi: "Garden of Roses"

Although the affairs of the world are public, if they are done with private intentions, it is private. [Japanese] Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi: "Er Cheng's Suicide Note"

Those who are unwilling to act upon changes are also selfish; those who have something to say but dare not act are also selfish. [Middle] Zhu Xi: "Collected Works of Zhu Xi? Letter to Prime Minister Chen"

Those who value self-interest often do not hesitate to do harm to others. [Center] Sun Yat-sen: "Three People's Principles? Civil Rights Principles"

When people can no longer take care of themselves, they don't even want to cover up their selfishness. [Chinese] Heimer: "My Guide"