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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.