Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.
The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Let the other side be heard as well.
If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
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.
My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
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.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
To love is to will the good of the other.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
To will oneself free is also to will others free.
From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I is another.
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
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.
