That’sbecause everything we want, we want for the sake of the happiness it brings us;but happiness we want for its own sake. Happiness is the fundamental thing we value.

我们想要任何东西，都是因为它们能给我们带来快乐，而我们希望过得快乐只是因为快乐本身，快乐是我们衡量、评判事物的基础。

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Money, and the pursuit of happiness for its own sake.

金钱，以及为了追求幸福而追求幸福的举动。

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If you love a girl, it's better to fight for her happiness than to abandon her for the sake of her happiness.

爱一个女孩子，与其为了她的幸福而放弃她，不如留住她，为她的幸福而努力。

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And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.

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