But they guarantee, at least, the happiness that can be found in the full and varied exercise of the different capacities of the human being, in work that need not be overwork, and in the consciousness that one is not endeavouring to base his own happiness upon the misery of others.
Kropotkin argues that true happiness comes from fulfilling one's potential without exploiting others.
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