Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"The greatest freedom is to be free from one's desires."
Seneca
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"The slave of yesterday will always be the slave of tomorrow."
Seneca
"Why do I have ten thousand treasures? Because I have learned to let them go."
Laozi
"Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner."
Laozi
"In the end, strength lies in letting go."
Laozi
"Let your inner light guide you, not the opinions of others."
Laozi
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"The essence of freedom is to own yourself completely."
Epictetus
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"Your judgments create your prison, as they do your freedom."
Epictetus
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
Epictetus
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"Masters and slaves exist only in the realm of externals; the mind is always free."
Epictetus
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"You must choose: either luxury with chains or liberty with a hard bed."
Epictetus
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"You cannot put a bridle on your thoughts, only on your actions and desires."
Epictetus
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"The most difficult imprisonment is one we create through our own opinions."
Epictetus
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"The person who acts on principle, not appetite, is truly free."
Epictetus
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"You cannot have freedom and comfort simultaneously."
Epictetus
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"You are always free to choose how you interpret your experience."
Epictetus
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"The greatest chains are those we forge in our own minds."
Epictetus
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"The person who controls their appetites is freer than any king."
Epictetus
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"Your freedom consists entirely in your power of choice."
Epictetus
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"The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not your thoughts."
Epictetus
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"Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are free to do what they ought."
Mencius
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"I'm not one who believes in fate. I believe in my will."
Confucius
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"What has a limited form cannot contain the unlimited."
Zhuangzi
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go."
Zhuangzi
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"True freedom is found not in the absence of constraint, but in the transcendence of it."
Zhuangzi
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"What you cling to, you lose; what you release, remains yours."
Zhuangzi
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"What others think of you is none of your business."
Zhuangzi
"It is impossible for a man to be entirely free while living under law."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The flesh cries out for deliverance from hunger and thirst; the soul for freedom from fear."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The man who adapts his desires to his means is far richer than the wealthy man enslaved by his desires."
Epicureanism Epicurus