"Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or……" — Samuel Butler
"Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain"
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own,…
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts…
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and…
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be,…
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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