What do we mean by setting a ...

What do we mean by setting a man free?  You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery