We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

About Epictetus

Portrait of Epictetus

Epictetus ( EH-pick-TEE-təss; Ancient Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in...

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Only the educated are free.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

—Barbara Hall

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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

—Albert Einstein

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