André Gide

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Biography - André Gide:

French author. Nobel Prize in Literature (1947).
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

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(French, German)

Mon bonheur est d'augmenter celui des autres. J'ai besoin du bonheur de tous pour être heureux.

André Gide - Les Nourritures Terrestres

Mein Glück liegt im Vergrößern des Glücks anderer. Ich brauche das Glück aller, um selbst glücklich zu sein.

André Gide - Uns nährt die Erde

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

To love is to will the good of the other.

Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Gottfried Leibniz

When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.

To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume

In the happiness of others I seek my own.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Bertrand Russell

It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Quotes for: happiness

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus /

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.

Émile Zola - Germinal /

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Quotes for: others

Quotes about others:

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections /

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Let the other side be heard as well.

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The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 /

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André Gide also said...

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

André Gide - Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits /

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth /

May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth /

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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