Quotations about:
    enlightened self-interest

Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion.

[L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble

Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
    (Source)

Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In the manuscript form it reads "L’intérêt donne toutes sortes de vertus et de vices."

See also ¶¶ 171, 305.

(Source (French)). Other translations:

Interest is the Thing that puts Men upon Exercising their Vertues and Vices of All Kinds.
[tr. Stanhope (1694), ¶254]

Interest puts in motion all the virtues and vices.
[pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶258; ed. Lepoittevin-Lacroix (1797), ¶238]

The virtues and vices are all set in motion by interest.
[ed. Carvill (1835), ¶225]

Interest brings into play every sort of virtue and of vice.
[ed. Gowens (1851), ¶265]

Interest sets at work all sorts of virtues and vices.
[tr. Bund/Friswell (1871), ¶253]

Selfishness brings into play all manner of vices and virtues.
[tr. Heard (1917), ¶261]

Selfishness makes use of virtues and vices of every kind.
[tr. Stevens (1939), ¶253]

Self-interest turns to account all kinds of virtues and vices.
[tr. Kronenberger (1959), ¶253]

Self-interest sets in motion virtues and vices of all kinds.
[tr. Tancock (1959), ¶253]

Self-interest puts in motion every kind of virtue and of vice.
[tr. Whichello (2016) ¶253]