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John Buchanan Robinson

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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Your ability to feel sympathy determines whether you enjoy your own happiness directly or enjoy seeing others happy. However, in both cases, your ultimate goal is to achieve happiness for yourself.

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