That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.


Francis Hutcheson

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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
UNKNOWN
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
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Gratitude is the king that procures abundance even when lack abound.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of ri...
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
AULIQ-ICE
Francis is our best freshman. We've been waiting for him to come through like this.
DAVE TALBOTT
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
JANE AUSTEN
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
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The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
ESTHER HICKS
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
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If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
DR. LINUS PAULING
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PAUL J. MEYER
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
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It seems to me that happiness is best bought in retail.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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FRANCIS BACON
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON