Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Build not your joy on another's sorrow.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.
Those who think they no longer need the help of others become deaf to reason.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
It is a good thing to see what things should be avoided in another person's troubles.
We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
In the happiness of others I seek my own.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.
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