“Freedom is participation in power.”

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.

I keep my opinions to myself. I’ve always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

Freedom lies within.

I’ve been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.