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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham

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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. – Jeremy Bentham

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldnt want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance. – Katy Perry

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell

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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. – Maurice Chevalier

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. – Dirk Benedict

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I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. – A.A. Milne

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