1043 – “[Bliss] is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”

-Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha

Common Paraphrase [See Source Notes]:

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

975 – “Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.”

-anonymous

895 – “Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you. … The twenty-five percent is for error.”

-Linus Pauling

329 – “All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.”

–Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States of America