Pat Bodnar has more. "And the Pursuit of Happiness" began as a monthly column in the Opinion section of the New York Times.

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Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.

边沁说，应最大化幸福，或更精确来说，最大化功利,功利最大化原则，不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。

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While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

当我凝视着店铺和街道,我的身躯突然开始熊熊燃烧;,大约持续了二十分钟吧,我的幸福是如此巨大，我受到祝福，也能把祝福施加。

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If I'm happier, I'm more likely to contribute to other people's happiness and wellbeing.

如果我更快乐，我更有可能,对他人的快乐和幸福作出贡献。

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We hope for our children's happiness more than our own.

我们希望孩子们幸福要甚于希望自己幸福。

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But more importantly,more successful in just as the currency of happiness and wellbeing.

更重要的是，我将“更成功,正如快乐货币和幸福货币一样。

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There's a lot of research to show that helping ourselves, in other words, working on our happiness, contributing to our wellbeing, leads us to also be more generous and benevolent toward others.

很多研究表明自我帮助，换言之，努力为自己争取快乐，有助我们获得幸福，也能引导我们对他人更加宽容和亲切。

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One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

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Neither it is a negative sum game-- it's not that my happiness takes away from other people's happiness which will be a negative sum game: if I have more, you'll necessarily have less.

也不是负和游戏-,我的快乐不是从别人那里夺来,那将是负和游戏：,我有更多，你一定更少。

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