English - Clergyman | May 18, 1692 - June 16, 1752
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
Joseph Butler
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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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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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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.
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
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