Happiness Does Not Consist In Self-love.

Virtue, As Such, Naturally Procures Considerable Advantages To The Virtuous.

In All Common Ordinary Cases, We See Intuitively At First View What Is Out Duty, What Is The Honest Part. This Is The Ground Of The Observation, That The First Thought Is Often The Best. In These Cases, Doubt And Deliberation Is Itself Dishonesty; As It Was In Balaam Upon The Second Message.

People Habituate Themselves To Let Things Pass Through Their Minds, As One May Speak, Rather Than To Think Of Them. Thus By Use They Become Satisfied Merely With Seeing What Is Said, Without Going Any Further. Review And Attention, And Even Forming A Judgment, Becomes Fatigue; And To Lay Anything Before Them That Requires It, Is Putting Them Quite Out Of Their Way.

Happiness Or Satisfaction Consists Only In The Enjoyment Of Those Objects Which Are By Nature Suited To Our Several Particular Appetites, Passions, And Affections.

Self-love Then Does Not Constitute This Or That To Be Our Interest Or Good; But, Our Interest Or Good Being Constituted By Nature And Supposed, Self-love Only Puts Us Upon Obtaining And Securing It.