GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The desire for praise is the desire to obtain, as a sign tha

No you are thinking in the right direction. It is stated in the argument that praise can be expected only if the desire was to aid others but if the motive for helping others was to be praised then the individual is not worthy of praise. Hence the author assumes that the desire to gain favorable opinion cannot be ruled by the desire to aid others.

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