Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.