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Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Brief author info: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher.

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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

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The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

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Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

Wisdom Quote

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

- Carlos Castaneda

Motivational Quote

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

Happiness Quote

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

- Dr. Seuss

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