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... perfect at every point . In this way he has no need of anything which involves a contest . " " The beginning and the greatest good is prudence . Wherefore prudence is a more precious thing even than philosophy : from it grow all the ...
... perfect at every point . In this way he has no need of anything which involves a contest . " " The beginning and the greatest good is prudence . Wherefore prudence is a more precious thing even than philosophy : from it grow all the ...
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... perfect duties . If your morals make you dreary , depend upon it they are wrong . I do not say , ' give them up , ' for they may be all you have ; but conceal them like a vice , lest they should spoil the lives of better men . " II THE ...
... perfect duties . If your morals make you dreary , depend upon it they are wrong . I do not say , ' give them up , ' for they may be all you have ; but conceal them like a vice , lest they should spoil the lives of better men . " II THE ...
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... perfect condition ; and no enticements of sweetmeats or stimulants will divert him from the simplicity in which the most permanent pleasure is found . To eat cake and candy between meals , to sip tea at all hours , no less than to drink ...
... perfect condition ; and no enticements of sweetmeats or stimulants will divert him from the simplicity in which the most permanent pleasure is found . To eat cake and candy between meals , to sip tea at all hours , no less than to drink ...
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... perfect . But he can learn to bear its imperfec- tions if they are at all bearable ; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed uncon- scious of the imperfections , but only because he feels not at all the good which those ...
... perfect . But he can learn to bear its imperfec- tions if they are at all bearable ; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed uncon- scious of the imperfections , but only because he feels not at all the good which those ...
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... perfect , would make him never think of , or de- sire , any beneficial condition for himself , in the benefits of which they are not included . The deeply rooted conception which every individual even now has of himself as a social ...
... perfect , would make him never think of , or de- sire , any beneficial condition for himself , in the benefits of which they are not included . The deeply rooted conception which every individual even now has of himself as a social ...
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Page 100 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Page 54 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 63 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Page 63 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Page 198 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 138 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Page 16 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 16 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell : And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd, " I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...
Page 56 - Now, it is an unquestionable fact, that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.
Page 85 - NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will.