| 1. | The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme abnegation. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | His egoism hinders him here in general, he looks "aloft" unwillingly--he looks either FORWARD, horizontally and deliberately, or downwards--HE KNOWS THAT HE IS ON A HEIGHT. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | At the risk of displeasing innocent ears, I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul, I mean the unalterable belief that to a being such as "we," other beings must naturally be in subjection, and have to sacrifice themselves. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | There were not lacking, however, evidences of what we may call the intelligent egoism of a youth who is charmed with the indolent, careless life of an only son, and who lives as it were in a gilded cage. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |