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Happiness Quotes by Joseph Butler
- 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 consequence.
- 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…
- Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
- The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world,…
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