“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
“It is our duty to help those who need help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy,”
Vol. 2, Ch. 24 "Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason"
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Context: ... the attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. It leads to intolerance. It leads to religious wars, and to the saving of souls through the inquisition. And it is, I believe, based on a complete misunderstanding of our moral duties. It is our duty to help those who need help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.
(I.3) Del Rey, p. 74
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 198
“This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.”
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
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Alternate translation: [Pride] measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others' wants.
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
