not oneself
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She said this “new” ethic should be based on Thomas Aquinas’s definition of love: willing the good of the other for the sake of that person and not oneself.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
Provided of course that it affects other people and not oneself.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2020
"To love the church means also to have the courage to take difficult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind, not oneself," Pope Benedict said to thundering applause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2013
It is not oneself but something in the universe that one’s left with.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 27, 1954
Mere stoicism, and resolves about fitting fortune to oneself, not oneself to fortune, though good things enough in their way, will not always meet the whole of the case.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir
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