Quotes for: others

Quotes for: others

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.
Jules Renard

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon

We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bertrand Russell

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie

Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
Confucius

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To love is to will the good of the other.
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Laozi

To will oneself free is also to will others free.
Simone de Beauvoir

From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca

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I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.
Confucius

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.
Charles de Montesquieu - Persian Letters

Build not your joy on another's sorrow.
Publilius Syrus