It can be evident from many considerations how this matter stands. One should not want to be the least in order to be the greatest, for in that case, one aspires and hopes to be the greatest. But this shows what it is-namely, when from the heart one wishes better to others than to oneself, so that one wants to yield the better things to others, and to serve them for the sake of their happiness, from no selfish motive, but from love. 1748, 8 March.