Seneca the Younger Quotes

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

Coming to my rescue?' 'Of course. It's what we do. I rescue you; you rescue me. We just take turns whenever the other needs it.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

Integration is a give and take.

People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

Partnership implies that the individual has responsibilities as well as rights.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

We find ourselves at times irked at the role of junior partner … nevertheless … partnership is worth the price.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.