No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Men." A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: J. Johnson, 1790.

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