Blaise Pascal on Nostr: "Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor ...

"Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished."

-- Horace
[Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8BC) Roman poet
25 B.C.