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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."

"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."

"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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