"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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Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

Joseph Butler

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.”

Source : Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”
“We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.”
“It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.”
“I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.”
“If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.”
“Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.”

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“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
“Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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