To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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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.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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