Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
I think most people act in their self-interest.
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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