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

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

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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 or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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