Quotes About Freedom

3. Alexander and Caesar and Pompey. Compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates? The philosophers knew the what, the why, the how. Their minds were their own. The others? Nothing but anxiety and enslavement.

The idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a government which respects most of all, the freedom of the governed.

It is in thy power to live free from all compulsion in the greatest tranquillity of mind, even if all the world cry out against thee as much as they choose, and even if wild beasts tear in pieces the members of this kneaded matter which has grown around thee.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.

I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future

No man can rob us of our free will.

You're an old man now. It's time to stop being a slave; to no longer be pulled along like a puppet on strings; to stop being dissatisfied with today and afraid of tomorrow.

Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech.

si con la rectitud debida obran de esa forma, no es razón que nos indignemos contra ellos; si no obran rectamente, es evidente que lo hacen sin libertad y por su ignorancia. Pues toda alma sólo de mal grado se priva tanto de la verdad como del conocimiento con que debe conducirse con cada uno según su valor. Por eso, llevan con impaciencia el oírse llamar injustos, ingratos, avaros, y, en una palabra, propensos a faltar contra su prójimo.

thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption.

no renuncies a ser libre, decente, comunitario, dócil ante dios.

Te embarcaste, navegaste, arribaste. Desembarca. Si es a otra vida, nada está vacío de dioses, tampoco allí. Si es en la insensibilidad[212], dejarás de soportar sufrimientos y placeres, dejarás de ser esclavo para un recipiente tan inferior como superior es la parte que manda comparada con la que sirve, porque mandan la inteligencia y el espíritu divino mientras que son sirvientes la tierra y los despojos sanguinolentos.

For how could we do what justice requires if we are distracted by things that don't matter, if we are naive, gullible, inconstant? 11. It's the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren't seeking you out; you are the one seeking them. Suspend judgment about them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one's master and no one's slave.

there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if youdon't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

Thou mayest live out thy life with none to constrain thee in the utmost peace of mind even though the whole world cry out against thee what they will

habla y actúa en todo según lo que sea más sano. Ese planteamiento te libera de golpes, de vacilación, de preocupación y afectación.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

13. Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.

O que depende de nós é, por natureza, livre, sem impedimento, sem contrariedade, enquanto o que não depende de nós é fraco, escravo, sujeito a impedimento, estranho

51. Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.

Today I escaped from all bothering circumstances- or rather I threw them out. They were nothing external, but inside me, just my own judgements. p87

Remember that to change course or accept correction leaves you just as free as you were. The action is your own, driven by your impulse and judgement, indeed your own intelligence.