Quote by Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greates

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. – Jeremy Bentham

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Age
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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Poverty
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Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory. – Ingrid Bergman

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He is rich who owes nothing. – Proverb

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