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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 / 






It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? / 






One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll / 






The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness / 






Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
Denis Diderot / 






I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 






Those who think they no longer need the help of others become deaf to reason.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
Fernando Pessoa / 






He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
Laozi / 






Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman / 






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.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues / 






One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






It is a good thing to see what things should be avoided in another person's troubles.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 






We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Seneca - De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem / 






Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr. / 






The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






In the happiness of others I seek my own.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid / 






All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell - Animal Farm / 



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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 






How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 






A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw / 






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.
Robert Green Ingersoll










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