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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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History Liberty Portion Poverty Struggle
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Himself Moral Prevent Purpose Right Willing
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Desire Learning Satisfaction Seek
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Easy Home Land Mistake Money Way Wealth
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep

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