Quote by Joseph Butler
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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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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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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Happiness
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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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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. – Daphne du Maurier

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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett

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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. – Francis Hutcheson

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