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1. "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
2. "Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown." ~ Joseph Butler
3. "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 in a determinate measure and degree." ~ Joseph Butler
4. "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." ~ Joseph Butler
5. "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
6. "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
7. "People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable." ~ Joseph Butler
8. "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
9. "Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food." ~ Joseph Butler
10. "The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery." ~ Joseph Butler
11. "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
12. "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
13. "But to us, probability is the very guide of life." ~ Joseph Butler
14. "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
15. "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
16. "Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature." ~ Joseph Butler
17. "There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of." ~ Joseph Butler
18. "Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with." ~ Joseph Butler
19. "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
20. "Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects." ~ Joseph Butler
21. "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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Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser"
Author: Charlotte Brontë

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