All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeGreat achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon HillThis idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica LangeIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson