本瑟姆认为最大幸福原则应该指导法律。

Bentham believed that the greatest happiness principle should guide laws.

译：希望本身就是一种幸福，也许还是这个世界提供给我们的最大幸福。

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

最大多数人的最大幸福是道德和立法的基础.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

当问题产生孰对孰错时，对的就是好的，对的就是人生的最大幸福。

Only that when questions of right and wrong arise, what is right is what is good, and what is good is that which promotes the greatest happiness of all.

人类仅仅需要通过他的理性来知晓这些法则，知晓能通往他个人最大幸福的条件，然后遵循那条道路走下去。

Man needed only to knowthrough his reason the conditions that would lead to his greatest happiness andthen follow that path.