1. Our own selfishness makes us the most arrogant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
2. Selfishness is the chief sin, thinking of ourselves first, and there should be no motive for selfishness.
3. With the sense of possession comes selfishness, and selfishness brings on misery.
4. The exercise of might is invariably the exercise of selfishness, and it is only selfishness that causes the difference between good and evil.