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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
- Joseph Butler
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
- Joseph Butler
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
- Joseph Butler
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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 to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
- Joseph Butler
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God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
- Joseph Butler
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Joseph Butler
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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, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
- Joseph Butler
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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 nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
- Joseph Butler
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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 injustice.
- Joseph Butler
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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 ourselves as well as to the distressed.
- Joseph Butler
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But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
- Joseph Butler
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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 as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
- Joseph Butler
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
- Joseph Butler
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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, or than love or hatred of anything else.
- Joseph Butler
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
- Joseph Butler
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#Things
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#Will
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
- Joseph Butler
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