Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.
Give heed to the appearance of neighbourhoods, a flourishing country should show its prosperity.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Freedom is the power to live as we choose.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.
Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.
God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
No man is free until he is a master of himself!!
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Only the educated are free.
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Freedom is participation in power.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.
