All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
JOHN STUART MILLPersons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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