Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
JOHN STUART MILLTo 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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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