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“But to myself all predictions are favorable if I wish them to be, since it is up to me to benefit from the outcome, whatever it may be.”

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Book:How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

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Epictetus

Epictetus was a renowned Greek philosopher born in 55 AD and died in 135 AD. He founded the Stoic school of philosophy, emphasizing the importance of reason, morality, and self-control, which had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy. more

“I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unfortunately! – too often obscure or invisible to his flawed creations. The minds of men move peculiarly slowly.”

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Book:The Fraud

Source: The Fraud

“The goal was not to subdue one's anger or shame, but rather to embrace it. Control was not the objective; freedom was. (Chapter 16, page 220)”

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Book:Flowerheart

Source: Flowerheart

“The presence of the military car strengthened him in his belief that he had done the right thing not to reveal himself. When the military comes into the picture, something else goes out the window.”

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Book:Handling the Undead

Source: Handling the Undead

“I value authenticity, and I choose love, not attachment”

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Book:A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“As one learns from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—and all the media that has since made that story its ancestor—a creation’s first act is to free itself of its creator, violently if necessary.”

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Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake, and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors have won for us after hard struggles.”

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Book:Essays in Humanism

Source: Essays in Humanism

“Do not desire anything that is not your own, because nothing is your own that is not up to you to procure or to secure whenever you want. Keep your hands right off it, but first and foremost keep your desire well away. Otherwise you are giving yourself up to slavery and submitting your neck to the yoke, if ever you admire what is not your own and feel strongly for things that are dependent on others and are perishable.”

Love Freedom

Book:How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

Source: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

“For me, I will take freedom over security and I will take security over convenience, and I will do so because I know that a world without failure is a world without freedom. A world without the possibility of sin is a world without the possibility of righteousness. A world without the possibility of crime is a world where you cannot prove you are not a criminal. A technology that can give you everything you want is a technology that can take away everything that you have. At some point, in the near future, one of us security geeks will have to say that there comes a point at which safety is not safe.”

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Author:Dan Geer

“You agency people are living testaments to justice. Frankly, your sparkle mesmerizes me. The Decay of the Angel's plan is the true embodiment of evil. That's what makes it worth assisting in! It's time to break out of this prison! The inherent brain-washing we call morality! I seek freedom for my soul more than any kind of joy!! So listen to the screams of my own free will!”

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Book:文豪ストレイドッグス 14 [Bungō Stray Dogs 14]

Source: 文豪ストレイドッグス 14 [Bungō Stray Dogs 14]

“It can clearly be said that tyranny suppresses and eliminates freedom—but, on the other hand, tyranny is only possible where freedom has been domesticated and has evaporated into vacuous concepts.”

Freedom Tyranny Ernst Jünger

Author:Ernst Jünger

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