Verses to enjoy

One from Sa`dī's گلستان :

بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکر اند \ که در آفرینش ز یک گوهر اند

چو عضوی به درد آورد روزگار \ دگر عضوها را نماند قرار

تو کز محنت دیگران بی‌غمی \ نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

Loosely translated:

"The children of Man are limbs of one body, for in creation they are of one essence /

When life brings pain to one limb, the other limbs cannot maintain their stability /

You, who feel no sorrow from others' sufferings, surely don't deserve the name 'man'."

And on the same theme in Sanskrit:

ayam bandhuḥ paro vêti gaṇanā laghu-cetasām

puṃsām udāra-cittānāṃ vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam

"The small-minded think, 'This one's a kinsman, that one's an outsider' /

For the noble-minded, the world itself is family."

While the broad sentiment expressed in these two verses is the same, there is an important difference: for Sa`dī, it simply is true as a matter of fact that all human beings share a common essence, and someone who lacks compassion is simply not a human being—s/he lacks humanity. In the Sanskrit verse, on the other hand, the conventional manner of dividing up the world into "ours" and "others" is described merely as "small-minded". (Of course, the idea that humans are limbs of one body is also present in Vedic literature in the famous Puruṣa Sūkta, but that image is commonly used to organize humans into a social or moral hierarchy, depending on your reading.)