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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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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. – Horace

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Ive gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesnt come from the outside. – Ricky Williams

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. – Proverb

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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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