Quote by Joseph Butler
Happiness does not consist in self-love. - Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love. – Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. – Joseph Butler

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People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when youre not looking for it. – Hugh Laurie

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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. – Norodom Sihamoni

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I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. – Alanis Morissette

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