If we separate ourselves so much from the interests of those around us that we do not sympathize with them in their sufferings, we shut ourselves out from sharing their happiness, and lose far more than we gain.
John Lubbock
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Pleasures of Life, Part I, Chapter I, “The Duty of Happiness”; Exact complete sentence in Lubbock’s own prose, not the many embedded quotations. Read in context of his objection to isolation from others’ suffering, following discussion of Stoicism and Matthew Arnold. Public-domain original Engli
- The Pleasures of Life, Part I, Chapter I, “The Duty of Happiness”
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