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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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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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Happiness
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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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There is an old saying that money cant buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. – Pete Rose

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Completeness? Happiness? These words dont come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. – Anita Baker

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Happiness

Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings. – Kenichi Fukui

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