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Quotes from Outline of a Morality Without Obligation or Sanction — Jean-Marie Guyau

1854–1888 France

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The purely selfish happiness of certain Epicureans is a chimera, an abstraction, an impossibility; the true human pleasures are all more or less social. Pure egoism, rather than being an affirmation of the self, is a mutilation of the self.

Outline of a Morality Without Obligation or Sanction (1885)

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