Pleasing Others

Et non nobismetipsis placere.  Hoc est, non quod nobis prosit et placeat vindicare, sed et quod fratri; quia invicem curam nostri agere debemus. Unusquisque proximo suo placeat in bono ad aedificationem Nunc personam suam discrevit; hos enim commonet, ut charitati studentes proximis placeant ad id, quod est utile. Haec est aedificatio, sicut alibi ait: Ego, inquit, per omnia omnibus placebo. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam Ad Romanos, Caput XV Source: Migne PL 17.172 a-b

And not to please ourselves...' 1 That is, not to demand what profits and pleases us, but that which is beneficial to our brother, because our care should be for one another. Each one pleasing his neighbour in goodness for edification...2 Now exhibiting his own person, he reminds them that with a love that wishes to please their neighbors they do what is useful. That is, they do what edifies, and so elsewhere he says, 'In everything to all I shall be pleasing.' 3 Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Epistle of Saint Paul To The Romans, Chapter 15 1 Rom 15.1  2 Rom 15.2 3 1 Cor 10.33