empathy Quotes

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.