compassion Quotes

From caring comes courage.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.