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If we are asked to resist our innate natural selfishness and include other people's welfare along with our own, it is only because in this way they too are being asked to include ours. This at least helps us and them. This is the practical benefit of politeness.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 25