Marguerite Yourcenar Quote

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.


Memoirs of Hadrian (ed. 1954)


For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free ...

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free ...

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free ...

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free ...