Variant: Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Source: The Zahir
“Choose what's best.—Best is what benefits me.”
—
Marcus Aurelius
,
book
Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book III, 6
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