A Table of the Springs of Action

Jeremy Bentham

No. IV. PLEASURES and PAINS,
Derived from the matter of WEALTH.—PLEASURES of Possession—Fruition—
Acquisition—Affluence—Opulence. PAINS of Privation—Loss—Poverty—
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Corresponding Interest,
PECUNIARY INTEREST. Interest of the Purse.
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Corresponding MOTIVES—with Names,

 —I. Neutral: viz.
Single-worded, none.
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Many-worded,
1. Desire, want, need, hope, prospect, expectation—of the means of subsistence, of competence, plenty, abundance, riches, opulence;—of profit, acquisition, &c.
2. Fear, apprehension—of loss, pecuniary damage, want, penury, poverty, impoverishment, indigence.
3. Desire, &c.—of maintaining, preserving, improving, mending, bettering, meliorating, advancing—a man's condition, situation, station, position—in life, in society, in the world, &c.

 —II. Eulogistic:
     viz.

1. Economy.
2. Frugality.
3. Thrift.
4. Thriftiness.

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5. Desire, hope, prospect, expectation—of thriving.
6. Prudential regard, care, attention, for and to a man's pecuniary concerns, property income, estate, livelihood, subsistence.

—III. Dyslogistic: viz.

1. Parsimony.
2. Parsimoniousness.
3. Penuriousness.
4. Closeness.
5. Stinginess.
6. Niggardliness.
7. Miserliness.
8. Nearness.
9. Dirtiness

1. Covetousness,
2. Cupidity.
3. Avarice.
4. Repacity.
5. Rapaciousness.

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6. Corruption.
7. Corruptness.
8. Venality.

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9. Love, appetite, &c. (as per No.1. Col.3) lust, greediness—of, for, to and after—money, gain, lucre, pelf—hoarding, flint-skinning, scraping, &c.

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