For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.