I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Quote by John Stuart Mill
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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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John Stuart Mill Quotes
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- The person 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.
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
- The person 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.
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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