Request Any Proverbs for selfish ?

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  1. Mantrazz

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    You've read it?
     
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    rh12 Destroying the world with my snores

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    So what’s the difference between a quote a proverb and an idiom?
     
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    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    My Precious~
    oh sorry wrong one~
    I guess~
    There no eternal enemy, only eternal profit~

    go ask google sensei
     
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    LaDyViL New Member Staff Member

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    I should have included this on that post:

    Greed::
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    zarvi Ojisan

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    He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination

    -Jose Rizal

    Golden rule
    -Matt 7:12

    Golden rule
    -Confucius
     
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    I don't get it~
    really~
     
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    "I am the I in Team"
    "Let's share this like brothers, I get the candy and you get the wrapings"
    "How about I eat mine and after that we can share yours?"
    "Me first"
    "Hogging the ONLY bathroom between 6:00-8:00 am"
    basically most proverbs refering to one of the seven sins (especially greed, envy, gluttony & sloth)
     
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    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    An idiom can be a proverb

    @MrsNyan
    Proverbs are just commonly known quotes, so you are right.
    OP is just being needlessly picky.
    Thanks for the wonderful quotes, they are very quotable haha
    I miss Reader's Digest and their quotable quotes section
     
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    I can't see it though luck baasan
     
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    LaDyViL New Member Staff Member

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    Changed source, look at it again~ tenor.gif
     
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    Eolan Totally serious poster

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    This?
    'The mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.'
     
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    zarvi Ojisan

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    Golden rule of Christians and Confucianism in different wording but almost the same meaning:

    Christ
    So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
    Mathew 7:12

    Confucius
    Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you
    Analects 15:23
     
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    Ophious Pathfinder kinda fun

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    Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions
    can't remember who said this though
     
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    A samaritan will give you a fish, a merchant will sell it to you
    By Me
     
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    Osamaru 『Shem's Best Pal ✧ Lexi's Ani ✧ Hamster's Keeper』

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    “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ― Oscar Wilde

    “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.” ― Criss Jami.

    “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
    ― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.

    “In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

    “People don't want other people to be people.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

    “We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
    ― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

    “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

    “The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

    “It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

    “Selfishness is blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

    Solomon did.
    That's Proverbs 18.
     
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    Yeah. I have a hard copy actually. It's a really good book.
     
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    The ending was kind of sad and highlighted how the colonial rule was taken outside of the obvious slavery
    Just talking about the book and not politics