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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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. – Joseph Butler

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respect
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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. – Joseph Butler

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alone
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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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Food
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Happiness
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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. – Douglas Horton

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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. – Bertolt Brecht

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Happiness

I certainly wasnt happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you cant earn, and cant keep, and often dont even recognize at the time I mean joy. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

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