Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
“If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.”
“What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.”
“Justice is Equality...but equality of what?”
“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
“You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.”
“Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.”