Joseph Butler

"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."

"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."

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

"Happiness does not consist in self-love."

"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."

"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."