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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for

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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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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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 music is the message, the message is the music. So thats my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness. – Al Green

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. – John Stuart Mill

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