Men may choose different things, and yet all choose right
 John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). copy citation

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Author John Locke
Source An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Topic right
Date 1689
Language English
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“For if there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right—‘Let us eat and drink,’ let us enjoy what we delight in, ‘for to-morrow we shall die.’ This, I think, may serve to show us the reason, why, though all men’s desires tend to happiness, yet they are not moved by the same object. Men may choose different things, and yet all choose right; supposing them only like a company of poor insects; whereof some are bees, delighted with flowers and their sweetness; others beetles, delighted with other kinds of viands, which having enjoyed for a season, they would cease to be, and exist no more for ever.” source