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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

When you really care about someone, their happiness matters more than yours.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If a man is not made for the self-sacrificing love of others, he is the most miserable of men.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.