“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”
Chanakya
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life”
James F. Byrnes
“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel”
Irwin Federman
“By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest”
Bertrand Russell
