BY THEME
On Freedom
On self-mastery, inner liberty, and the only freedom that cannot be taken.
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Letters 28.2
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He has the most who is content with the least.
Attributed
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Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.
Letters 2.6
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Discourses 4.1.175
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
Discourses 4.1
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Discourses 4.1.175
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Wealth consists in the fewness of one's wants, not in the abundance of one's possessions.
Discourses 4.1
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Lectures 18
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Not even the rich can live as they wish if they are not well.
Lectures 9
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The free man lives as he wishes, is not compelled, not hindered, not constrained.
Fragment 41