The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
Interpretation
People are often better off relying on themselves than on those who may harm them.
This quote suggests that individuals find greater happiness and contentment when they are self-reliant and in control of their own lives, rather than being dependent on others who may have harmful intentions. It reflects the idea that freedom and independence bring more joy than submission to potentially dangerous guardianship.
In practice
In a discussion about parenting styles, you can use this quote to emphasize the importance of fostering independence in children.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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