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"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
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"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."
"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed."
"Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate " to empathize with others."
"What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?"
"On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction."
Explore more quotes by Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"
"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."
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