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Drawn from what Adam Smith said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org
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