Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for hap

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Freedom
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Men
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Happiness
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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. – William Hall

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Ive had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. – Michael Landon

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Happiness

My parents- theyve been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. – Shawn Johnson

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Happiness

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness

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