Here as some quotations which do not encourage selfishness.

"The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public interest."

"Self command is not only itself a great virtue but from it all other virtues seem to derive their principle lustre."

"To act according to the dictates of prudence, of justice and proper beneficence, seems to have no great merit where there is no temptation to do otherwise."

"He is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens."

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'

"Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."