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

— Adam Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

— Denis Thatcher

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

— Walter Scott

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

— Gloria Steinem

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

— Joseph Addison

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

— Ivan Turgenev

✗Opposing Perspectives

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

— Joan Didion

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

— George Orwell

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

— Joseph Butler