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“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius, “Analects”

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

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