Freedom Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.”

— Seneca

“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics'] is quite…

— Anton Chekhov

“He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.”

— James Allen

“The peace we can aspire to then is not a harmonious peace of the grave, nor a submissive peace of the slave, but a…

— William Ury

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.”

— James Morrow

“there was dignity to be found in stoicism,”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce