In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
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In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
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