| 128 | Is it natural to simply indulge our selfish desires? [Plato] |
| 12 | If we were invisible, would the just man become like the unjust? [Plato] |
| 2168 | Clever criminals do well at first, but not in the long run [Plato] |
| 3559 | For Aristotle, true self-love is love of the higher parts of one's soul [Aristotle, by Annas] |
| 5243 | The best people exercise their virtue towards others, rather than to themselves [Aristotle] |
| 92 | Self-love benefits ourselves, and also helps others [Aristotle] |
| 2810 | Selfishness is wrong not because it is self-love, but because it is excessive [Aristotle] |
| 7398 | Carneades said that after a shipwreck a wise man would seize the only plank by force [Carneades, by Tuck] |
| 13292 | Selfishness does not produce happiness; to live for yourself, live for others [Seneca] |
| 2370 | All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer [Hobbes] |
| 7833 | Spinoza names self-interest as the sole source of value [Spinoza, by Stewart,M] |
| 6243 | As death approaches, why do we still care about family, friends or country? [Hutcheson] |
| 3650 | Total selfishness is not irrational [Hume] |
| 4183 | Only self-love can motivate morality, but that also makes it worthless [Schopenhauer] |
| 2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
| 24135 | Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche] |
| 7141 | A living being is totally 'egoistic' [Nietzsche] |
| 9760 | Self-concern may be a source of pain, or a lack of self-respect, or a failure of responsibility [Korsgaard] |