We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

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Mortimer Adler

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831 Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
804 Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
346 You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
773 We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
894 Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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