A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自私
Selfishness
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
伟大的成就通常来自伟大的牺牲，而不是自私的结果。
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
自私不是按照自己的意愿生活，而是要求别人按照自己的意愿生活。
Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.
与其在自私的种子长成巨大的杂草后试图根除它们，不如不要播下自私的种子。
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
那些只崇拜自己的人会有一种光滑、光亮的外表——就像纪念碑一样。真可惜他们这么快就走了。
Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/.
嗯，我知道他们总是说你/自私是错的/但我来写这首歌是为了我，不是为了你。
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
如果我们对自己不都那么感兴趣，生活就会那么无趣，我们谁也无法忍受。
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
死后的慈善是自私的本质，当遗赠给那些即使活着，也不会放弃任何东西的人。
Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.
为你自己而活吧——没有人比你更值得活下去了，因为乞求的手和流血的心只会让你哭得更伤心。
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
这可能是一个寒冷，潮湿的事情说，但那些对待友谊一样，任何其他自私似乎得到了最大的好处。
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
初升的太阳可以驱散黑夜的黑暗，但它不能驱除人类心中的邪恶、仇恨、偏执和自私。
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
这一运动的组织和持续不断的发展表明了许多人对自私、贪婪和少数人的忽视的怨恨。
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
现在，作为一个父亲，我不会做我父亲做的事情，因为这让我在小时候感到情绪不稳定。但他做这些事不是出于自私或恶意。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For beings who have it in us to afford so much joy to others, how miserly we are!
对于那些拥有快乐的人来说，我们是多么的吝啬啊!
The flowers of others are red.
别人的花是红色的。
He draws water over his own rice field.
他在自己的稻田上引水。
A miser and his persimmon seeds.
一个守财奴和他的柿子。
Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.
自私会阻止祝福流向你和他人。
To lend your hatchet and get your forest cut down.
借你的斧头砍倒你的森林。