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Good Quotes by Joseph Butler
- The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive…
- The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
- Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed,…
- 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…
- Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to…
- Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing…
- However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being…
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