The value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to six circumstances: 1. Its intensity. 2. Its duration. 3. Its certainty or uncertainty. 4. Its propinquity or remoteness. 5. Its fecundity. 6. Its purity.
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Felicific Calculus)
1789
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