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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 · Food

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Joseph Butler

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.

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Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Happiness

Joseph Butler

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Happiness

Joseph Butler

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

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