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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Men are to...
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter.
Source: Signs of the Times, (1829; first published in Edinburgh Review no. 98).
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.