Enjoy your life without comparing to that of others. It is enough for you to know that you are good, without examining whether others are as good as you.

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Source, in full

Advice to his daughter (written in hiding March 1794), quoted in Lukes, S., & Urbinati, N. (Eds.). (2012). Condorcet: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139108119

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