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Reason does not know the interests of the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters; even that of disinterestedness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.”
Theodor W. Adorno

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Interest blinds some and makes some see.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
George Bernard Shaw

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