"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)