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

— Jeremy Bentham

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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ↗

— Francis Hutcheson

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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