Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”
Philosopher and economist · 1806 – 1873
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher and political economist, the most influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. On Liberty defended individual freedom against social coercion, and his Autobiography candidly records his extraordinary education and mental crisis.
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