Nobody ever chooses the ...

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
 Lucan

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
All go free when multitudes offend.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.