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- Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to…
- Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love…
- 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,…
- Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures…
- Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but…
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