Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.