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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…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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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…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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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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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,…
— Alan Ball
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the…
— Aristotle
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from…
— Dalai Lama
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The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to…
— Gay Hendricks
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
— Adrienne Rich
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There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
— John Churton Collins
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