Painters and poets alike have always had license t...

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

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.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Painters and poets alike have ...