The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

We must as second best… take the least of the evils.

Evil brings men together.

More quotations tagged with “freedom”

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

—Albert Einstein

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

—Alan Dean Foster

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

—Edith Wharton

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

—Frank Herbert

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