A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
From John Stuart Mill
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
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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