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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Selfish, Satisfaction, Reason
Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.205, Library of America
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.