Echoes

He who is brave is free.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

I may become a poor man; I shall then be one among many. I may be exiled; I shall then regard myself as born in the place to which I shall be sent. They may put me in chains. What then? Am I free from bonds now? Behold this clogging burden of a body, to which nature has fettered me! “I shall die,” you say; you mean to say “I shall cease to run the risk of sickness; I shall cease to run the risk of imprisonment; I shall cease to run the risk of death.”

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.