Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre. <br class="br">The Immoralist, Chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MPmRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Savoir+se+lib%C3%A9rer+n'est+rien+l'ardu+c'est+savoir+%C3%AAtre+libre%22&jtp=17#v=onepage (1902) <br class="br">The Immoralist (1902)
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal
"The Immortal", § IV, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
“The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.”
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 11
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“What we know is as nothing, if we do not love God properly in all things.”
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1282) German mystic
[Norris, K., The Cloister Walk, Penguin Publishing Group, 1997, 978-1-101-21566-1, http://books.google.com/books?id=pZkLNwpYcJ0C&pg=PT115]
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 90
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
“…to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing…”
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) Irish nationalist and author
Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 1.
