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...

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in...

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or...

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or...

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature...

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature...

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may...

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may...

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil,...

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil,...

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the...

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the...

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but,...

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but,...

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice,...

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice,...

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to...

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to...

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his...

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his...

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what...

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what...

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die...

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die...

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense,...

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense,...

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but...

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but...

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

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

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we...

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we...

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the...

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the...

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed...

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed...

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing,...

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing,...