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When the freedom they wished most for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Edith Hamilton

Sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Edith Hamilton

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom.... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Edith Hamilton

Fundamental to everything the [ancient] Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

Edith Hamilton