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• The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
• It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
• As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
• Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
• Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
• The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
• People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
• Happiness does not consist in self-love.
• The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
• Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
• Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
• Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…

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