Unselfishness-Selfishness

Though peace be made, yet it is interest that keeps peace. (Oliver Cromwell)

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur. (André Gide)

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

What appears to be generosity is often only ambition disguised, which despises small interests to pursue great ones. (La Rochefoucauld)