The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence that is to say freedom of observation and of judgment exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is I think to identify it with freedom of movement or with the external or physical side of activity.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity with the unquestioning matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

You will go most safely in the middle.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I bear a charmed life.

I don't exercise.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing more to fear from them then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.

They just have more sets now and more options. They are looser.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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