All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.