"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
― Mary Wollstonecraft
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Good
More From Mary Wollstonecraft
- "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."
- "If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
- "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."
More In Good
- "Every day is a great day for hockey."― Mario Lemeiux
- "As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."― Andrew Jackson
- "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."― George Eliot