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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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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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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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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. – Timothy Radcliffe

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I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. – E. M. Forster

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