PHILOSOPHY
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
PLATO
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
ARISTOTLE
"Not for ourselves alone are we born."
CICERO
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
M AURELIUS
“I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.”
VOLTAIRE
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”
ADAM SMITH
"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own."
GOETHE
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
SCHOPENHAUER
"This [to live for others], the definitive formula of human morality, gives a direct sanction exclusively to our instincts of benevolence, the common source of happiness and duty. [Man must serve] humanity, whose we are entirely.”
COMTE