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> [Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/nature-has-placed-mankind-under-the-governance-of-two-sovereign/)

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> [“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/nature-has-placed-mankind-under-the-governance-of-two-sovereign-2/)

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## More by Jeremy Bentham

> [All poetry is misrepresentation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/all-poetry-is-misrepresentation/)

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> [The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-law-of-england-has-established-trial-by-judge-and-jury-in-the/)

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> [Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/prose-is-when-all-the-lines-except-the-last-go-on-to-the-end-poetry/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/o-logic-born-gatekeeper-to-the-temple-of-science-victim-of-capricious/)

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> [Every law is an infraction of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/every-law-is-an-infraction-of-liberty/)

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> [Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/stretching-his-hand-up-to-reach-the-stars-too-often-man-forgets-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-principle-of-asceticism-never-was-nor-ever-can-be-consistently/)

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> [Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/tyranny-and-anarchy-are-never-far-apart/)

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> [Reputation is the road to power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/reputation-is-the-road-to-power/)

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> [In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/in-the-mind-of-all-fiction-in-the-logical-sense-has-been-the-coin-of/)

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> [The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-turn-of-a-sentence-has-decided-the-fate-of-many-a-friendship-and/)

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> [“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/for-the-same-sentiment-of-antipathy-if-implicitly-deferred-to-may-be/)

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> [If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/if-christianity-needed-an-anti-christ-they-needed-look-no-farther/)

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> [Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/without-publicity-no-good-is-permanent-under-the-auspices-of/)

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> [All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/all-punishment-is-mischief-all-punishment-in-itself-is-evil/)

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