"People might love themselves with the most entire……" — Joseph Butler

"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."

— Joseph Butler

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42 Quotes by Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was…
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and…
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…
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them.…
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…
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their…
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of…
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being…

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More Affection Quotes

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Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when… — Michelle Bachelet
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or… — Lord Acton
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of… — Jane Addams
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it… — Sarah Bernhardt
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love. — George Best
I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

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