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Joseph Butler quotes: Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Joseph Butler quotes: Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Joseph Butler quotes: People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Joseph Butler quotes: 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?

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 quotes: The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Joseph Butler quotes: Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

Joseph Butler quotes: It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

Joseph Butler quotes: Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Joseph Butler quotes: The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

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 quotes: Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Joseph Butler quotes: There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

Joseph Butler quotes: The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

Joseph Butler quotes: Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler quotes: Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.

Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.

Joseph Butler quotes: The first thought is often the best.

The first thought is often the best.

Joseph Butler quotes: That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.