Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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Every law is an infraction of liberty.

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Law Infraction Liberty

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Reputation Road Power

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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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Nature Mankind Pain Pleasure

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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains

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Happiness Create Pleasure Pains

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We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

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Courtesy Kindness Minds Happiness

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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

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Power Lawyer Uncertainty Law

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

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Happiness Foundation Morals Legislation

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the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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Rarest Human Qualities Consistency

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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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Power Government Believe Religion

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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Tyranny Anarchy Never Apart

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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

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Quantity Pleasure Good Poetry

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A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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All poetry is misrepresentation.

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Poetry Misrepresentation

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Right... is the child of law.

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Right Child Law

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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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Government Trust Acknowledge

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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

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Pestilence Zeal Religion Morality

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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes

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Law Time Humanity Mantle

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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

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Unkind Language Suffering Bosom

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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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Publicity Good Permanent Evil

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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil

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Punishment Mischief Evil

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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

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Vain Interest Community Individual

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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

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Lawyers Truth Win Case

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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Secrecy Conspiracy System Government

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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

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Age Live Knowledge Perfection

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

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Truth Happiness Right Wrong

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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Lawyers Persons Ignorance Law

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"28 Jeremy Bentham Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains

Jeremy Bentham

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Jeremy Bentham

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Jeremy Bentham

the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Jeremy Bentham

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Jeremy Bentham

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Jeremy Bentham

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Jeremy Bentham

Right... is the child of law.

Jeremy Bentham

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Jeremy Bentham

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Jeremy Bentham

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Jeremy Bentham

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes

Jeremy Bentham

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Jeremy Bentham

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Jeremy Bentham

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil

Jeremy Bentham

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Jeremy Bentham

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Bentham

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

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